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...Some tourists, perhaps inured by terrorism spanning the globe in recent years, seemed eager to take a stand against the violence by not budging. American Amy Widener, 41, was dining near the blast site with her father and infant son when the explosions sent panic through the area. But she said they would not change their plans to explore the Red Sea's famous coral reefs. "If I go home, the terrorists win," she said. Scuba instructor Anya Kozlova, 25, from Moscow, arrived a year ago to experience the splendors of the Sinai. She went diving in search of body...
...breast cancer if taken for five years by women with increased risk of the malignancy. The trouble is, tamoxifen also triggers menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and slightly increases the chances that a woman will develop blood clots and uterine cancer. As a result, women haven't been too eager to take the medication--nor have many doctors been all that enthusiastic about prescribing...
...curricular review reports present no evidence that Harvard students are too narrowly educated or are becoming overspecialized. In fact, our broadly educated students welcome the challenge to compete at the highest level of their academic specialties. Those passionate ambitions seem strongest in our hungriest students, the ones eager to transcend the social and economic disadvantages to which they were born. They seek excellence because they seek success, and they welcome disciplined training that guides them toward those goals...
...generalizations and clichéd trivialities—“longer dining hours” anyone? A lack of platforms has also resulted in UC elections turning into popularity contests. Last May, a bill was proposed to the UC to shift to direct elections and attract more people eager to manage financial statements or design cool social events. This would have led to more sophisticated electoral platforms, and consequently, more devoted representatives in all committees, rather than just one. Regrettably, it got shot down. Despite support from experienced delegates like President John S. Haddock...
...Academy of Kabul” portraits beauty both in form and content. Under the Taliban, the Afghan women were willing to risk their lives to secretly run beauty salons because they valued beauty whether the public could see their face or not. In the post-Taliban Afghanistan, they are eager to learn makeup application techniques because they see the economic opportunity in the trade...