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When then Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrahms threatened to cancel a planned speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government because the school had invited Robert White, a liberal former U.S. ambassador to El Savador to balance the panel, Kennedy publicly threw his support behind White...
...Delay after delay left the athletes fractious, and fans who had traveled from distant islands to watch the Games found themselves standing in strong winter monsoons. The Olympic Village waited and waited to see Paul Kariya, the Canadian hockey star of Japanese descent, arrive, and finally he had to cancel too, because of a concussion...
...truth, I do think this latter claim is more accurate. But even assuming the safety effects cancel out, there are still great reasons for keycard access. It would increase a sense of campus-wide community. Which upperclass student does not recall with great fondness the days of being a first-year, popping in to visit friends and vice versa? The result of restricted access is the relegation of socialization to electronically pre-arranged encounters. Moreover, it is simply more convenient. We are afraid to say this because we think it makes us seem selfish or reckless, but we shouldn...
...cancel your life-insurance policy just yet. While the new work suggests a way to prolong life, scientists are a long way from making it a reality--and it may be too risky to be useful. The study proves something that researchers already suspected: each of the 1 trillion cells in the human body contains its own biological clock, which tells the cell when to stop growing and start dying. It might be possible to stop that clock. But would it be prudent? Many biologists think the cell's planned obsolescence is an all-important safeguard against the development...
...Executive Board--in office for only a week, still trying to get the hang of running the place--now faced the prospect of becoming the first Executive Board since World War II to cancel publication...