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Eliot, as most Houses, has basic weightlifting equipment. It also has a few perks, like a CD/Tape player, a punching bag, and a good supply of exercise mats. They also have amusing posters on the wall of House Master Lino Pertile: "Lino is not as strong as you, put your weights back." Classy...
...When we started the work, of course, we were really just interested in the very basic question about DNA replication, how the ends of chromosomes are maintained,” Szostak told The New York Times yesterday. “At the time we had no idea there would be all these later implications...
...most convincing writers on this subject was the American political scientist Barrington Moore. In his work on the social origins of dictatorships, Moore coined the phrase "No bourgeois, no democracy." It may be true that a middle class is necessary for the establishment of basic democratic rights, such as the vote. But the events of the past two decades have laid to rest any notion that the enrichment of a country provides an automatic impulse toward greater liberty. Remember the talk, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, about democracy arriving hand in hand with free markets? As people became...
...really neat to have a grab-and-go solution, a very basic bag meal of a sandwich, fruit, chips, and a drink,” Martin says. “It’s evolved a lot over time...
...stay in charge of Iraq, Maliki must defeat his former coalition allies in what are expected to be tough elections on January 16. The victor will have a difficult four years to maintain security as American troops depart, and turn around cynical Iraqis tired of little improvement in basic services and still recurring violence. (Read what Maliki and Iraq still need from...