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...long. Chirac's longevity is all the more remarkable since his political instincts have often failed him. He launched a virulently nationalist appeal prior to the first general elections for the European Parliament in 1979 that ended in fiasco for his center-right party. In 1997, he chose to hold early elections, but the ploy boomeranged when the Socialists emerged as victors. But thanks to his prodigious vitality, shrewd maneuvering and quick mind, Chirac always managed to recover from even his worst blunders. Not this time. Now, both his talents and his luck have run out. The "minor cerebrovascular accident...
...chose as one of your heroes theologian and physician Peter Okaalet, who works in Africa with pastors and their congregations to redefine their response to the AIDS epidemic. Okaalet exemplifies the most important weapon in our war on poverty and disease: education. He teaches people to let go of the holier-than-thou attitude of condemning others, and he helps them recognize that preventive medicine takes us one step closer to the dream of solving the developing world's problems...
...statistical analysis was complicated, however, and required help from researchers at the Colorado Prevention Center and the University of Colorado. Investigators chose for comparison two areas that don't have smoke-free laws: the part of Pueblo county outside the city and an adjacent county. Although the number of heart attacks fell in both of those areas, the drop was small and not statistically significant...
...were Harvard-educated, things might have been different). Brin and Page did not invent the search engine concept, but they certainly refined it. Unlike most of its competitors, Google used PageRank technology to compile results according to importance and would not allow advertisement money to contaminate them. Repeatedly, Google chose quality of the website over potential profit; hence the mantra in the company’s Code of Conduct: “Don’t be evil.”While other websites bombard users with flashy advertisements, Google insists on Spartan simplicity. Its homepage is uncluttered...
...chose, with the low-income initiative, to send the strongest possible message to families across the nation that Harvard is—really and truly—an option for exceptionally talented students whatever their financial means,” Summers told nearly 1,600 graduating seniors gathered in Tercentenary Theater in June...