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...many hazards of the job is developing this same attachment to unknowing athletes. Four hours a week of yelling about how amazing the Harvard football and basketball players are, and the required intensity of concentration on game occurrences, can easily lead to that same best-friend mentality. More dangerous, cheering also results in a large amount of name and face-recognition that is often not returned.Being the only current Harvard student combining Crimson sportswriting with Crimson cheerleading has bestowed upon me a mental directory of Harvard’s athletes, the likes of which could only be achieved by someone...
...political spectrum have supported their government's hard-line rejection of any attempt to deny their "nuclear rights," but concern has grown in Iran's political establishment over the provocative stances taken by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose grandstanding, they warn, has weakened Iran's position and raised the danger of confrontation. However, Ahmadinejad faces a tough re-election battle in June, and there have been questions over whether his health will allow him to run for a second term. If he does, he's likely to face a close fight from a united front of pragmatic conservatives, like current parliamentary...
...aggressive the inflammatory response is depends on a person's genes, diet, stress levels and even exposure to chronic infections such as gum disease. So, the more active the inflammatory response, the greater the chance of ruptured plaques and heart attack. In people with elevated CRP, that means the danger lies not so much in the number of plaques (measured by cholesterol) but in how likely they are to burst (measured...
...Administration is also trying to de-list the gray wolf of the northern Rockies - which conservationists say is still in danger...
...always going to be the most fragile of cease-fires - after all, Israel and the Palestinian militants of Hamas are sworn enemies. And on Tuesday night, the truce brokered by Egypt last June that has largely stamped out violence across the boundary between Israel and Gaza, appeared in danger of collapse: Israeli troops, backed by helicopter gunships and tanks, crossed into Gaza to destroy a tunnel being dug by militants, supposedly to launch a raid inside Israel...