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...sport where medals are decided by judges and where whispers persisted that East Bloc judges favored East Bloc athletes and Western judges Western? In the end, though, as soon as the champions took the ice, all such issues became irrelevant: what held the world spellbound was an age-old contest of coquetry against industry, art against craft, style, in a sense, against sincerity...
...age-old pain-killer may very well have direct anticancer properties. Unlike acetaminophen, which acts only on the central nervous system, aspirin (chemical name: acetylsalicylic acid) has an extraordinarily broad range of effects. The reason is that it interferes with the production of a diverse class of substances known as prostaglandins, which are found in nearly every body tissue. (Ibuprofen does too, but in a much more limited...
...next step was obvious. Hostage taking had proved spectacularly successful in getting U.S. attention in Iran, and it was an age-old Lebanese tradition that became even more popular when sectarian civil war broke...
...staff is right that the Harvard bureaucracy has yet to correct these problems, but do we really ever expect them to? That people feel more comfortable around others of the same ethnicity is a powerful, age-old phenomenon. I would roll over dead if Harvard College could make any substantial progress in this area...
Ironically, if the prospects for peace in this perpetually troubled region have never looked brighter, the need for a prompt resolution of the Middle East's age-old hostilities has seldom seemed less urgent. The cold war is over, so U.S. fears of a regional tussle escalating into a superpower conflagration have subsided. Immediate threats to Israel's security are not much in evidence. Syria, despite a potent army, is no longer able to tap Moscow for funds and is wooing Washington to attract trade and investment. Egypt has a de jure peace with Israel, Jordan a de facto...