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...reason why older doctors (when they're not thinking about HMO's) are generally a stable and contented bunch. Most of the time, most of our bodies work pretty well. Without a superconducting, supercooled magnet, without medical education, without any thought on our part, we battle and defeat disease and injury every second. Do you know how many things out there can kill you? Yet here you are reading. Something very, very powerful must be keeping you here. The machines we have to analyze the body are complex. But not nearly as complex, or as wondrously made and maintained...
...Navy boat that handed Harvard its first defeat since 2003 sits atop the second varsity poll, and the Midshipmen enter the weekend with all five of its eights ranked...
...threat of the disappearance of Greenland (hint: not the continental equivalent of the appendix), casts Gore's life into the soft-focus glow most often associated with The Man From a Place Called Hope. His young days on the farm. Triumph over family tragedy. Determination and grace after humiliating defeat. And just as in a campaign ad, Gore carefully paints an unflattering picture of his opponent without ever mentioning his name. It's all "the current Administration" this and, even more conveniently, "they" that. A savvy move, considering the race is still against a Candidate to Be Named Later. Viewed...
...mails about the restructuring proposal, according to UC President John S. Haddock ’07. Several council members were visibly upset with the outcome of the vote. Sunday night, a proposal to replace the CLC with a new Outreach and Services committee was voted down. After that defeat, former UC presidential candidate Magnus Grimeland ’07 and CLC’s vice-chair of services, Raul A. Campillo ’09, advocated that the CLC continue as a committee in charge of student services and take on additional duties, including lobbying for a student center...
...stage demonstrations in the streets without forming any clear plans for the future. That is a very paradoxical situation. May the kind of cool reforms you described continue in France and the rest of Europe. Charles Carchereux Pontoise, France Reform is possible in France, even if the sound defeat of the Prime Minister's youth job bill seems to suggest otherwise. I didn't take part in the protests, and I wanted classes to start again, so I was grieved to see how the media lumped students together with destructive demonstrators. Necessary reforms may be forestalled again if French officials...