Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find it ironic that many of the same people who support sending 18- to 22-year-old American ground forces to fight and die in Kosovo also argue that they can not support the return of ROTC to campus because it makes certain 18- to 22-year-old Harvard students "feel uncomfortable." The self-righteous arrogance of the ivory tower never ceases to amaze...
...find it ironic that many of the same people who support sending 18-to 22-year-old American ground forces to fight and die in Kosovo also argue that they can not support the return of ROTC to campus because it makes certain 18-to 22-year-old Harvard students "feel uncomfortable." The self-righteous arrogance of the ivory tower never ceases to amaze. JOHN H. WHITEHOUSE III '99 APRIL...
...this vagueness that makes the tragedies of this war all the more tragic. As idyllic as these goals might seem, war cannot be looked at with dry eyes and clear consciences. The simple merciless fact is that people will die when bombers drop bombs. It doesn't matter how virtuous and just a war claims to be--the abstractions always reduce to the somber and desolate realities of warfare...
...have even been calls for the use of ground troops. It seems that when it suits our agendas we have no trouble calling on soldiers to place themselves in harms way. Our moral outrage is apparently not so great that we balk at employing the military instrumentally. Soldiers can die for us, but they just can't train in our backyard...
...question was Rezulin's immense promise. In most folks, insulin (a substance produced in the pancreas) helps ferry blood sugar into cells, where it is used for energy. But for the 15 million or so Americans with Type II diabetes, cells resist insulin's entry; eventually they weaken and die. Traditional treatments involve boosting the amount of insulin available to the cells. But these can have side effects, and for some people they don't work...