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Lewis said Harvard--which tied with Princeton for the top spot last year--has never drawn attention to its U.S. News rank...
Though the last naturally caused case of polio in the U.S. was in 1979, recent announcements and recalls by government agencies have drawn public attention to the real if very small risks of inoculation. Each year an average of eight children are infected with polio by the otherwise highly effective Sabin oral vaccine, which is made from live but attenuated polio viruses. This danger was highlighted in June, when the Food and Drug Administration recommended the Salk killed-virus vaccine, which is safe but somewhat less effective, instead of the Sabin variety, for the first two of the four required...
...Type T nation, as opposed to what Farley considers more risk-averse nations like Japan. He breaks it down further, into Type T physical (extreme athletes) and Type T intellectual (Albert Einstein, Galileo). He warns there is also Type T negative, that is, those who are drawn to delinquency, crime, experimentation with drugs, unprotected sex and a whole litany of destructive behaviors...
...police, a force of about 100 drawn from local suburbs, arrived at 4:00 a.m. armed with riot gear. They began by forcing about 200 students from the steps of University Hall, clubbing many in the process...
...Welcome to Slashdot, one of the busiest news outposts on the Net. It's 8:30 a.m. at gadget-laden Geek Compound, where the Slashdot crew lives and works in the outskirts of Holland, Mich. The sun is shining, but the shades are drawn -- the better to cut glare on the winglike, flat-panel SGI monitors that 23-year-olds Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda and Jeff ("Hemos") Bates settle in front of as they start the workday. Malda, using a keyboard mounted on the arms of his chair, cursors through dozens of story suggestions submitted overnight by Slashdot users. MORE...