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...obstetrician, Tom Coburn has angered senators from the right and the left in his decade-long battle to cut what he considers pork-barrel spending from the federal budget. Coburn has diagnosed such spending, known as earmarks, as "the gateway drug to spending addiction" and he's determined to cure Congress of this malady. As the Senate has worked to pass a key appropriations bill over the last two weeks, Coburn has attached 19 amendments to the bill, all targeting spending provisions he thinks are pork. Most famous for his attacks last year on the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere...
...programming board will add little to the quality of campus social life. By changing the name of the group that plans campus-wide activities, some expect a cure-all for the problems of satisfaction with social life. The new College events board boasts that it will throw five big events a year; however, these plans are strikingly similar to what was accomplished without a College events board in the past year. Although efforts to institutionalize the success of the Harvard State Fair and the Harvard-Pep rally are commendable, these events will hardly have a dramatic impact on students?...
...least one week without sleeping, showering, or eating. But in the end, the effort was absolutely worth it. It’s the one chance you have to create something entirely your own, and to put sustained effort into something original. Your thesis doesn’t have to cure AIDS. Writing about a subject you are passionate about almost always produces a better thesis then writing about something that sounds sexy. 2. Get Out of Cambridge—Being a typical New York snob, I always figured that there was really nothing Boston could offer...
...mission of the utmost importance: to play their song on a spaceship. A planet looms impressively off to one side. The whole thing only goes to show that, contrary to popular wisdom, adding “…in SPACE!” is not a cure-all for tired concepts. In this case, “the video that’s just a band performing alternating with shots of them looking all pensive and anguished…in SPACE!” is not a significant improvement on the standard formula for sensitive rockers...
...speak, swallow or breathe, while usually leaving the mind untouched. It's MND that confines physicist Stephen Hawking to a wheelchair and last month claimed the life of Australian artist Pro Hart. Experts' understanding of the disease remains sketchy, and riluzole falls way short of being a cure: at best, it might prolong a patient's life for a year...