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Since it is space that community needs if it is to flourish, the most pressing need is for a student center. We have urged such a community space before, but in the context of community-building the need is most strongly evident. A student center would give students a place to congregate, relax and play, as well as hold extracurricular meetings and events. Currently the only common space for all undergraduates is the dark and dismal warren known as Loker. Tomorrow we will be addressing not only how the administration and students can work together to bring a student center...
...globalization. We are a profoundly secular city; nowhere else in America are people freer to worship their own gods or to be godless. No place outside Israel has more Jews. Blasphemy is common, irreverence is obligatory. Art is at least as important as religion. Eccentric ideas and profane entertainment flourish. Women do just as they please...
...just returned from living in India and suffering from symptoms that none of his doctors could explain. He became the subject of a study at the National Institutes of Health, where doctors finally diagnosed his problem--a novel immune disorder that allowed certain parasites in his body to flourish--and published their findings. Ridker's curiosity was piqued--permanently. "My first real exposure to medicine was at such a high level of research, with these talented physicians trying to understand why this young boy was having so many problems, it made medicine exciting to me," he says...
Taylor was last in the heat going around the final turn, but she managed to finish with a flourish again, passing former U.S. Olympic Trial competitor Yvonne Harrison—now running for Puerto Rico—and Great Britain’s Sinead Dudgeon, who had beaten Taylor in the preliminaries...
...Never mind that the majority of business-type servers run other companies' software, and were therefore never affected in the first place. Never mind that it was a sadly typical security flaw in Microsoft's server software that allowed Code Red to flourish. Note also that the million-plus people drawn to Microsoft's website by that patch included many thousands who didn't need it (the worm only hits Windows NT or 2000. Windows 95, 98 and ME are unaffected...