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...less obvious concern is that students don’t even consider themselves to need help. There’s a perverse system of heroics in place—the Harvard students who get the least sleep, feel the most stressed, push their body and mind to the farthest extreme, are the “winners.” Is it any wonder, then, that during reading period and exams more students get sick than any other time of year...
Recently, the 2001 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference presented the 2001 U.S. Big Brother Awards to those agencies, companies and programs that had gone the farthest in their invasion of personal privacy. It will come as no surprise that the government’s program, ominously named Carnivore, received the award for Most Invasive Proposal...
...blatantly pro-Palestinian interests, while providing Israel's supporters little or no opportunity to respond. The majority of speakers quoted in the station's middle east news programs last year were Palestinian or pro-Palestinian outsiders, while a grossly disproportionate number of Israelis quoted were from the country's farthest pro-Palestinian left. Even worse, pro-Palestinian segments received roughly four times the airtime of those on pro-Israeli issues...
Once Pluto, king of all the netherworld, got some respect among astronomers. In 1930, he joined his brethren as the namesake for the farthest planet in our solar system. But among some astronomical ingrates, Pluto has recently fallen out of favor. Two years ago Pluto was almost reduced to a mere "minor planet" by the International Astronomers Union, and last February New York's Rose Center for Earth and Space left Pluto off the list entirely, relegating him instead to a disk of icy comets known as the Kuiper Belt. One year later, passions still rage in the astronomical community...
...government's decreasing ability to mold public opinion, and the growing independence of Chinese trendmakers. "More information about Tibetan culture has come available, so more people see its value," says Zhao Jia, a travel executive who next month will release an off-the-track guidebook to Tibet's farthest reaches...