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...stipend. They teach undergraduates as a part of their financial aid packages that forgive the thousands of dollars in tuition they would otherwise pay. This logic does not escape Yale University, even if GESO leaders don't grasp it. While students rallied to support clerical and technical workers' attempt to unionize in 1984, few students support GESO's efforts...
...They would go two at a time, with an adult accopmanying them," Andersen said. "The adult would not go into the store, they would go in and attempt to purchase cigarettes." The study took place in the Fresh Pond, Inman Sq. and Harvard Sq. areas, Andersen said...
...Japanese have never followed only one religion. Shinto, an animistic nature cult, has coexisted for centuries with different Buddhist sects; there is also a Christian minority. But starting in the late 19th cen-tury, an official attempt was made to bring all Japanese under one spiritual roof. The nation was taught to follow the imperial cult, called State Shinto: the belief that the Japanese Emperor is divine, that the Japanese are de-scended from their ancient gods, and that any order from a superior-in the government, in the army, at school-must be obeyed without question. State Shinto turned...
Once malignant cells have spread beyond their original location, however, traditional chemotherapy is usually much less successful at producing a cure. In an attempt to develop a treatment for these more advanced cases, the researchers at Dana-Farber have been experimenting with levels of antitumor agents that are much higher than those normally prescribed. In Lehman's case, the treatment was to last four days, and the amount given during each 24-hour period was supposed to be barely shy of lethal. The physician in charge of figuring out her daily dosage, whose identity has not been released, apparently made...
...step toward restitution? Russia signed agreements with Germany in 1990 and again in 1992 to return "unlawfully removed cultural property." But Russian negotiators now claim that the seizure of German artworks may not have been "unlawful." They point out that it was a response to Germany's attempt at cultural genocide. The Versailles Treaty, they argue, contained formal provisions for reparations from Germany to Belgium, to compensate for the enormous destruction wreaked by the Kaiser's troops on the country in 1914. They also cite the Allied Control Council at World War II's end, which endorsed reparations...