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...Confessions of Pete Rose - Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent pens an op-ed for the New York Times. Having felt disrespected by Rose for more than a decade, he urges some caution in ushering Rose "to the front row of baseball's most honored citizens...
...sexually transmitted diseases and osteopathy. Consequently, just as China was proudly announcing that it had defeated snail fever, the mollusk began returning. Last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health, 810,000 people contracted schistosomiasis, more than double the number of cases in 1988. But experts caution that the real figure is much higher and could spiral further upward upon completion of the Three Gorges Reservoir, which might cause the snails to spread eastward. Jiang Changzao, a former official at China's largest reed plantation, which supplies pulp for paper, says that almost every reed cutter working...
Gossip Guy’s throwing caution to the wind and leaving his Glock and Kevlar vest at home for this year’s Harvard-Yale. Get ready to take cover kids, Gossip Guy is firing some .44 caliber lies, poison-tipped innuendos and cop-killer rumors...
...this point Dean Kamen IS used to being called naive. "I'm getting neurotic about people overhyping things," he says, "so let me tell you what it doesn't do." Kamen's caution is understandable. He invented the overpublicized, under-performing superscooter known as the Segway--and was responsible for some of that hype. So when it comes to his latest invention, a low-cost, low-power water purifier designed for the Third World, he wants to be clear: he has no idea how to market it or get it to the people who need it. He just knows...
...Donahue, who is also an admissions officer, suggested caution in moving the hypothetical number up this high. “You don’t necessarily want to go out there and give double or triple the tip over students who are equally talented,” she said. “We think it would be wonderful if more low-income students could be admitted to Harvard. [But then] there would have to be 300 [or more] students who didn’t come...