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Government officials claim that Lee downloaded classified files onto portable computer tapes. Officials say these files contain enough information to rebuild the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal...
Area 4 is Cambridge's poorest neighborhood and is the only one to contain a majority of non-white residents. Its residents have an average annual income of only $24,665--half that of some of Cambridge's wealthier areas. Unemployment stands at more than 10 percent, double the rate in most of the city's other neighborhoods...
Letters are more likely to contain great thoughts and to make great thinkers of frequent writers. Try to imagine Rousseau writing an "E-mail to D'Alembert," or Paul sending an e-mail to the Thessalonians. Or, for that matter, Burke composing an "E-mail Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris." Indeed, most of Burke's published writing is in the form of letters--one wonders how many Burkes we are losing these days...
...stick to the Recommended Daily Allowance, because there is little or no evidence, after all, that large doses of antioxidants prevent chronic disease. Predictably, the academy recommends the natural intake of antioxidants; instead of gulping down a few pills, everyone should concentrate on eating the fruits and vegetables that contain the critical nutrients. The recommendations aren't based solely on the fact that the human body absorbs vitamins more readily from food than from pills; it's also that supplements carry the risk of overdosing. And there's convincing evidence, the study continues, that very high doses...
...might also argue that since our immense universe contains gazillions of galaxies filled with appropriate stars and planets, and since life did emerge on the one and only planet we really know, how can we deny that a sizable proportion of these other planets must also contain life? Yet a logical fallacy dooms this common argument because either alternative can be reconciled with the positive result that I must obtain for the only place I can sample--our Earth. For if all appropriate planets generate some form of life, then I should not be surprised that I have found living...