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Unfortunately, some of my classmates will do it for the worst possible reason. They are afraid to go through life without the comfort of a familiar routine, that safe-space, a well-known "challenge.” It's easier for them to keep going through the motions than it is to step outside themselves and try something...

Author: By Michael C. Sabala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staying in Sports for the Right Reason | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...says, "I have a certain comfort level in making some recommendations because there are other good reasons for preventing strokes, for reading, for taking folic acid. If our findings showed something that had no other known benefit besides preventing Alzheimer's, then we would be on much thinner ice." Even so, it's not clear precisely how much folic acid to take, and Snowdon's team is divided on whether to boost the intake of vitamins C and E beyond the normal recommended doses (Markesbery says yes; Snowdon says not until we know more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nun Study | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"?cold comfort for the families of the 60,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. Senator Max W. Cleland of Georgia, a paraplegic veteran, said McNamara's book should have been titled Sorry 'Bout That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Inside the Machine | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...just represented an extraordinary person who had the potential to be amazing president of Harvard. He had really a very deep passion for knowledge, a comfort with complexity, and all of the essential values of the academy," a committee member said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee's Long, Diligent Search | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"--cold comfort for the families of the 60,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. Senator Max W. Cleland of Georgia, a paraplegic veteran, said McNamara's book should have been titled Sorry 'Bout That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Inside the Machine | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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