Word: commonality
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...with confidence in the correctness and value of what one is doing, and a strength of spirit that overcomes the inertia of long-established custom--these are ingredients without which the work cannot be accomplished. While genius is somes a factor, the tales in this issue tell of doggedness, common sense and the simple wish to help the sick or injured...
...Harvard Crimson, Business Board; The Harvard Coop Board of Directors; Lyman Common Room Coordinator; Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Program; Adams House H.A.N.D. program mentoring coordinator...
Although incidents of car theft are not too common on the Harvard campus itself and in fact "have decreased significantly," according to McNamara, leaving a vehicle outsides the confines of Harvard can have its risks...
...risk of colon cancer. Ashkenazi Jews are those with roots in Central and Eastern Europe. That covers most Jewish Americans, including me. Only 6% of Ashkenazi Jews are thought to carry the defective gene, but that's enough to make it, according to the New York Times, "the most common known cancer gene in a particular population." And colon cancer is just one disease for which Ashkenazi Jews seem to have a disproportionate genetic tendency. Breast cancer, Tay-Sachs and cystic fibrosis are others. The Times reports that this is the result of too much intermarriage during the Middle Ages...
...Fruit Loops vs. Wheaties dilemma. When a crush of games hits shelves this fall, kids will grab the gory action ones while their parents reach for something a bit tamer--an encyclopedia or a math primer, perhaps? Any chance of common ground? Our taste test: Quake, last Christmas' bloody hit, vs. Young Dilbert, an edu-title due this fall. You make the call...