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Chang's death will spur the University Health Services (UHS) and the House to organize counseling sessions and put more mental health professionals on call over the next few weeks. That is fine, except that the availability of mental health services will flag in proportion to the publicity surrounding the suicide so that when student need help months later, they often cannot...
Piccard and Jones had better luck with China. On March 10 the Beijing government allowed the Swiss-licensed Breitling access to its skies, so long as the craft stayed south of the 26th parallel. Nevertheless, morale on the Orbiter 3 started to flag soon after, as Piccard and Jones flew over the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Progress toward Hawaii was slow, and they lost contact with mission control for four days. "I realized that the worst desert wasn't made of sand but of water," Piccard said when communications were re-established. Then the balloon popped...
...least one of the assailants escaped over the back fence of Mather House onto Flag St., Duarte said...
...AMERICANA] High school band; American Legion guard; candidate's son sporting American-flag necktie...
...home, Tran insists he displayed the flag because it's his country's current symbol. Ho, he says, was a "hero" who helped liberate his people. And America is a liberated country, with real freedoms. "I wanted to show the Vietnamese community that freedom means accepting an opposite opinion." He doesn't quite disavow a quest for fame. "Wanting to be famous is just human nature," he says. "But that's not the main point for my actions." Then he asks, "When is my story running...