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...three-game winning streak and improving its season record to 10-8, Harvard awaits a daunting final stretch to close out their season. The Navy Invitational this weekend features several strong opponents, including a Princeton squad that bitterly defeated the Crimson a year ago by one goal at the Eastern Championships. Sandwiched between the Navy Invitational and back-to-back regional tournaments is a critical home date against Brown that could set the tone for the last two weeks of the season. “If we have aspirations of contending at Easterns, we have to do well against these...
...Organization. It's just more dangerous. "The [legal] status of abortion seems to predict not the number of abortions that occur but the safety," says author Dr. Gilda Sedgh. Half of the 42 million abortions worldwide are performed by unskilled individuals or in unhygienic conditions. Overall, abortion is down; Eastern Europe has the highest rate, with 105 abortions per 100 births...
Since then, American tips have grown even bigger, while Europeans have forgotten their munificence. Today in Western Europe, moderate service charges are often tacked onto bills. Even in the U.K. a paltry 10 percent tip is the norm in restaurants. In Eastern Europe and in much of Scandinavia, tipping is not expected, but occasionally done, and in countries like Japan, New Zealand, and Vietnam, tipping is simply not practiced...
...most sophisticated" computer virus, called it "a marvel of social engineering" and further admired it for its longevity and mutability [Oct. 8]. He needs to rub the dazzle from his eyes. What if the authors of the virus are functionaries for China, Russia or a Middle Eastern country testing the efficacy of new software? Rather than praising the prowess of the worm's creators, Grossman should be admonishing the security industry to shut down the Storm Worm before it shuts down the Internet. Peter Sims, NEW YORK CITY...
...Most years since, the ripening hashish crops are destroyed shortly before the harvest by drug police protected by hundreds of Lebanese troops. But this year, the Lebanese army's manpower was stretched to the limit with security commitments in Beirut, along the southern border with Israel, the eastern border with Syria and in the north of the country where troops fought a bloody three-month battle against Islamist militants during the summer hashish growing season. Furthermore, the hashish farmers threatened to burn down the houses of local tractor owners who are hired each year by the government to plough...