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Beer bereavement runs rampant in the Yard. Those protesting new restrictions on the availability of alcohol claim that if we alter the manner in which alcohol is delivered to the bloodstream, students will drink more. A corollary of that line of thought is that any controls on alcohol, especially banning alcohol for those under 21, produces more drinking...
Saddam Hussein is a cunning, stubborn and potentially irrational opponent of the United States. If Iraq had nuclear weapons today, it would alter the balance of power in the region and threaten American interests. But there is a confusion and uncertainty among the American people about the need for war with Iraq, and especially about its urgency. This is understandable. The primary threat to American lives and interests around the world remains the terrorists of al-Qaeda. To be sure, in the last few weeks there have been important breakthroughs in the fight against terrorism. But we need to keep...
...they have been associated--circumstantially--with reproductive, immune-system and brain-development problems. What's the solution? A treaty to ban and clean up the poisons would be ideal. Until then, the Inuit may have to alter a diet that has been unchanged for generations. The polar bears, alas, have no such option. --By Michael D. Lemonick
Naturally, players do not throw this huge projectile across the ice, but rather slide it from a crouched-down starting position that involves sliding on one foot and somehow not falling over. As Bronowski more elegantly explains, the move looks kind of like an eagle soaring. Players can alter the direction of the rock by curling their wrist left or right, while their teammates assist as well by sweeping the ice in front of the traveling rock for a nice, smooth ride...
...improving college life or undergraduate education. With creative advertising targeted towards college and university presidents, a school can inflate its “peer assessment” score, which accounts for 25 percent of its rank. With clever accounting methods, like counting incomplete applications as rejections, a school can alter its selectivity ranking and overall score...