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College students this spring watched the flameout of Kaavya Viswanathan, the prepackaged Harvard prodigy who published a best seller at 19 and had been exposed as a plagiarist by 20. That's not the way things are supposed to unfold. College is supposed to be about the Best Four Years...
A week after the aborted terror plot to smuggle liquid explosives aboard planes flying from London to the U.S., the air travel system is still trying to adapt. Some of the most draconian restrictions have been eased, but there's still a lot of confusion over what the rules are...
Allergies: Go into any medical establishment at all these days and there's one question you will be asked again and again: "are you allergic to any medications?" Drug allergy is very different from drug sensitivity. In our current computerized medi-bureaucracy, you must be careful about telling hospital personnel...
This 1 1/2-1-1/2 ratio is age-old and not to be messed with. And this ratio is what I told Cory I wanted. He looked at me in worried confusion, as though I'd asked him to pour tequila directly into my mouth. I imagined what he was thinking: A...
What came next was a failure to communicate. About 20 minutes after the quake, the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency's technical department for tsunamis received the e-mail bulletin from PTWC in Honolulu that included a warning about the risk of a local tsunami, according to Fauzi, the department...