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From the huge steel phallus guarding the front door to the pervasive presence of wood inside to the noticeably attractive staff, Cambridge, 1 has a distinct feel of urban masculinity. You can almost imagine a couple of drunk guys deciding to forgo the real world and instead open up their own imagined culinary nirvana filled with quality food, good drinks and hot girls...
...Justice has apparently turned merciful. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the government is willing to forgo the felony conviction and settle its Enron obstruction-of-justice case against Andersen out of court if the accounting firm admits that it illegally shredded documents; it's a deal Andersen seems likely to take. The news came as the firm tapped an acting CEO - Andersen Worldwide Board of Partners chairman Aldo Cardoso, whose primary job will be to sell off as many overseas affiliates as he can - and a new adviser, investment bank Gleacher Partners, to carry out Volcker's plans...
...Peace and Justice—who was quite active during the fall in protesting the United States’ ongoing war in Afghanistan—has faded into silence. In obsessing about the “hot three,” to the exclusion of other political concerns, we forgo discussion about very real problems our nation is facing...
From the first note, Blast! proves itself to be much more than a marching band that took a wrong turn on the way to a football game. The show takes an innovative approach by combining elements of both modern dance and the marching arts. In choosing to forgo a traditional storyline and instead to rely on a series of musical tableaux themed around the color spectrum, Blast! succeeds in communicating pure emotion...
Eventually, women may be able to forgo surgery entirely. Doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston and the Weill Cornell Center in New York City are experimenting with high-frequency radio waves that can literally cook tumors from the inside. Using ultrasound to guide them, doctors insert a multipronged probe into a tumor. The prongs open up like the spokes of an umbrella and melt malignant cells without burning surrounding breast tissue. So far, the procedure has been performed only on women who were planning to get a mastectomy or lumpectomy anyway...