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...doctors, homocysteine is nothing new. As long ago as 1969, Harvard physician Kilmer McCully--now with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Providence, R.I.--was studying the unusual case of an eight-year-old boy who had died of a stroke. McCully found that the boy's bloodstream was fairly awash in excess homocysteine and that his arteries had the sclerotic look of an elderly...
...denser than Earth's, forming a sort of photochemical haze that appears to be full of the stuff of prebiology. The problem is that Titan is cold. With temperatures hovering near -290[degrees]F and no signs yet of significant heat to drive chemical reactions, the moon could be awash in organics that are nevertheless unable to combine in biologically useful ways...
...spite of a recent survey by UCLA researchers claiming that this year's first-years are more conservative, the Harvard campus has proven to be awash with liberal sentiment. Fortunately, Harvard has two Republican clubs and two conservative newspapers. By joining The Harvard Salient and becoming freshman-member-at-large for the Harvard Republican Club, I have found shelter from the storm...
...universities suddenly found themselves confronting a fiscal landscape more hostile than any they had faced in the previous quarter-century. Although I did not know it at the time, in my freshman year, 1972, Penn was emerging from a fiscal crisis. The stage was set in the '50s, when, awash in the ever rising tsunami of federal spending triggered by Sputnik's assault on the nation's pride, Penn and its peers went on a building-and-hiring binge. A surge of Great Society financial-aid money helped them expand even further. New faculty could be supported with minimal strain...
...this in the asset column of China's late Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping: his market reforms helped make China one of America's biggest creditors. Awash in dollars from exports, China now buys more U.S. Treasuries than even the Japanese--$12.1 billion in U.S. notes and bonds through the first nine months of 1996,vs. the $11.6 billion Japan purchased. China owns more than $43 billion of U.S. Treasury debt, the world's fifth largest hoard, and moving...