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With someone else bearing the burden of the golden fleece as the Tour sped through northern France, Armstrong settled in near the front of the peloton, where accidents are less likely to occur. (A near crash on July 13 cost him 27 seconds.) As expected, the Postal Service team didn't begin its express delivery until the first mountain stage, in the Pyrenees on July 18, when Armstrong was 26 seconds behind González de Galdeano. One by one the Posties burned themselves out and fell away like booster stages on a rocket launch as they led Armstrong...
Smith, who had suggested the course to Kuconis, asked the University to promote such ROTC waivers in a successful Undergraduate Council bill in May, saying they would ease the travel burden on cadets while giving them the opportunity to learn from world-class Harvard professors...
...their best bet - and Palestinians defying a curfew in order to buy and sell tomatoes and eggplant are not going to easily tolerate gunmen in their midst provoking the Israelis. Much of the international effort to mediate the crisis is currently focused on efforts to ease the economic burden on ordinary Palestinians. On the Israeli side, this week's budget cuts and ongoing security crises underscore the fact that, like the Palestinians, the unending conflict is beginning to fundamentally alter their lives...
...ages ranging from 20 to 45 - who have now received the news that they are genetically predisposed to the disease. Another is his refusal even to put to these people a request to see if they would like to talk, anonymously, about how they are to live with this burden. He will say that so far only one person has not been told, on the ground that he or she is not psychologically prepared for the news. The information he and his colleagues hold is stored separately from the rest of the hospital's records...
...moves under discussion in Sharon's cabinet were geared towards easing the burden of the current reoccupation, rather than ending it. Israeli commentator Aluf Benn summarized Sharon's plan as holding out for the "unconditional surrender" of the Palestinians: "In messages to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and his friends in the Mideast Quartet, Sharon demanded that the Palestinians lay down their arms and their leader be removed as conditions for any diplomatic progress," writes Benn. "He made it clear that the Israel Defense Forces will remain in the territories for a long time, and asked that the international...