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...John from Miami wants to learn how to rock climb. Then I flip through the housing applications looking for a rock climber. I find someone who is compatible from Alaska who is a rock climber. Fabulous...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Roommates, Meet Your Makers | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...education has, overall, strengthened the teaching of evolution, even as it has presented a new target for anti-Darwinists. In 2000, 10 states had no mention of evolution in their curriculum standards. Now only Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma--states with long creationist traditions--make this omission. In June, Alaska's state board of education was pressured by scientists, teachers and concerned citizens to add evolution to science standards that had avoided the topic. Other states, most notably Kansas and New Mexico, have wobbled on whether to teach evolution, deleting and then restoring it to state standards depending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution Wars | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...fault lines, records of old quakes and analysis of underground rock formations, he explained why certain spots in active seismic areas, including those far away from the epicenter, are hit harder than others. His work influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska. died. al held, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...along fault lines, records of old quakes and analysis of underground rock formations, he explained why certain spots in active seismic areas, including some far from the epicenter, are hit harder than others. His work influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 8, 2005 | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...messy situation. No one is denying that federal and state officials, under pressure to combat a spike in pain-killer abuse, are waging an escalating war on drugs that is spilling into the waiting rooms of neighborhood doctors. Over the past six years, more than 5,600 physicians from Alaska to West Virginia have been investigated on suspicion of "drug diversion." Some doctors allegedly prescribed narcotics too freely, while others issued them to patients who turned out to be dealers or addicts. More than 450 doctors have been prosecuted on charges ranging from illegal prescribing and drug trafficking to manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is The DEA Hounding This Doctor? | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

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