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...bonus round, team members may confer before answering questions. Teams earn points for answering questions correctly and lose points when they answer incorrectly...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocation), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
...skin rash. The vaccine is a weakened form of the virus, and it too may be harbored in the body forever. The debilitated virus could conceivably spring to life years after the vaccination, and no one knows what damage might occur. Another danger is that the vaccine may not confer lifelong immunity and will therefore make a person vulnerable to chicken pox during adulthood, when the disease can be more serious. "It's impossible in the experimental studies preceding licensing to study a vaccine's effects for 50 years," says Dr. Caroline Hall of the American Academy of Pediatrics...
...best: lining up votes. Just before a crucial House ballot late last month, the Secretary persuaded two Texas Congressmen to switch and support the budget -- which then passed by three votes more than the minimum needed. From Moscow and Paris last week, where he had gone to confer with Boris Yeltsin and other top foreign leaders, Bentsen spent about 2 1/2 hours every day phoning White House officials, Moynihan and others to begin working out the details of a deal that might be acceptable to the Administration and the 11 Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee (the nine Republicans...
...School of Dental Medicine will confer 22 doctorates in dental medicine at the Longwood Medical Area quad. During the same ceremony, the Medical School will award 135 M.D.s and 11 masters in medical science. Some 255 students will receive degrees from the School of Public Health...