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...completely antagonize the notion that such a group avoid making political power its main agenda,” Kameron A. Collins ’09 wrote in an e-mail to BGLTSA-open. “If trying to fight for cultural capital isn’t political, I don’t know what...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Debates New Name | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...until more rigorous standards are in place, eating continues to be a game of Russian roulette for the food-allergic. Which is why some researchers are trying to find a better way to treat allergies than simply advising their patients to avoid certain foods. In a new strategy called oral immunotherapy, doctors try to retrain the immune system by hitting it with the offending protein enough times, in increasing doses, that the body's defenses eventually relent and accept the protein as friend rather than foe. "It's the first generation of treatment that would make people less or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Going Nuts Over Nut Allergies | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...International Atomic Energy Agency report said Iran has enough uranium--albeit not weapons grade--to eventually make a bomb. The Bushehr test, which did not use fissile material, was overseen by Russian officials. Moscow will supply the Russian-built plant with nuclear fuel under a U.N. arrangement meant to avoid its potential misuse. The plant should be operational by the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...will the city of romance avoid being loved to death? The answer to that is something few might have expected. Increasing Paris' appeal to tourists, experts say, will involve throwing the city's arms open to its surrounding suburbs--including some associated more with blighted housing projects and periodic rioting than with culture-filled summer vacations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Much Greater Paris | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Herculean fundraiser, helped his archdiocese avoid bankruptcy amid the lawsuits that followed the priest sexual-abuse scandal. He effectively closed a $3 million budget deficit in 2008 and also started a fundraising campaign that he claims has raised $57.5 million in pledges, more than halfway to its goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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