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Most were not in favor of gender quotas, believing that the end of Radcliffe meant the beginning of a unified student body with fewer male-female divisions...
Only a handful of major-league pitchers can throw consistently in the upper 90s--and even fewer can maintain that velocity past age 30. Yet Morris--who never threw faster than 88 m.p.h. during a minor league stint that ended 12 years ago--had only grown stronger. Maybe it was because he'd had a painful bone spur removed from his shoulder. Maybe it was the years of weight training and pitching at batting practice. All the Devil Rays knew was that they were having a pathetic season and were desperate for left-handed pitching...
...facts: This year, 130,000 Americans will learn that they have developed a tumor somewhere in the inner lining of their colon or rectum. For those whose cancer is discovered at the earliest stages, the odds of living at least five more years are greater than 90%. Unfortunately, fewer than 40% of colorectal cancers are discovered that soon. In the same period, about 56,000 people in the U.S. will die of the disease, making it the second greatest cancer killer, after lung cancer...
...share" of a plane, many people don't want to have their money tied up in such a costly asset and don't fly enough to justify the expenditure. For most people,"on-demand aircraft charter" is far cheaper than fractional ownership, especially if they fly fewer than 20 times a year. Aircraft charter varies in cost from $40 to $400 a seat per hour. Charter operators and pilots must meet more stringent FAA safety standards than fractionals--and usually an on-demand charter can be arranged in much less time. JAMES K. COYNE, PRESIDENT National Air Transportation Association Alexandria...
Leaving the real world to re-enter the Harvardsphere (kind of like the biosphere, but fewer plants and more TFs) also has its perks. The opportunity to immerse ourselves in a socially and intellectually unique. After all, part of education, if I correctly interpreted my General Ed 105: The Literature of Social Reflection readings from this week, entails a suspension of reality and a lunge into a magical never-never land...