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...single heartfelt message to the right person at the right time can lead to another all-important signature on the request to President Bush. The fight against AIDS has no opponents in Congress, but it has no champions—so we must be the champions. We must flood the capital with our tears for the victims of AIDS and with our outrage over inaction. We must break the deadly silence of AIDS by raising our voices to call for its end. Despite tragedies, loud and quiet, there is hope...
...remained on the clock when senior safety Andy Fried intercepted a pass by Yale quarterback T.J. Hyland, clinching Harvard’s victory. Unable to contain their enthusiasm, a portion of the Harvard section of the stands streamed onto the field. As the clock ran down, students continued to flood the field—some moving toward midfield, others taking off toward the goalposts...
...visitors?both tourists and wannabe Jet Lis. The Chinese government, now aware of Shaolin's lucrative allure, resolved to rescue it from its exile in ideological ignominy. Crumbled buildings were resurrected. Secular martial-arts training academies sprang up around the temple's walls to cater to the region's flood of aspirants. And the monks?whose ranks had swelled slightly since the end of the Cultural Revolution?were reincarnated as shills for a host of marketing schemes, from coffee-table books and calendars to performance tours and instructional videos...
...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu...
...chunk out of the $500 billion global travel and tourism industry. "Last year, we booked 17.8 million trips overseas -- the most ever," says Hiroshi Ueno of Japan Travel Bureau, the nation's leading travel agent. "This year, we were on target for 18.3 million. But after the flood of cancellations, that's an impossible goal...