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...forces that shaped his character and thinking: his parents, his early attraction to a military career, his brushes with racism in the South, his two tours of duty in Vietnam. Powell, who wrote the book with historian- biographer Joseph E. Persico, retains a serious but not pompous tone, with frequent flashes of self-deprecating wit. A man fond of maxims, Powell is always looking to learn from mistakes as well as successes, and he frames much of his story that way. Under the glass top of his desk at the Pentagon, Powell kept a pulpit's worth of sayings...
...plan is specially designed for students, covering cleanings, fillings, fluoride treatments for people with extensive or frequent cavities and bitewing radiographs that check for cavities between teeth. University affiliates, including research fellows and post-doctoral fellows, will also be eligible for the plan...
...global warming. It's logical to assume that warmer oceans will give rise to more dangerous hurricanes. But the warming, if it's real, is still too small to have much effect. That doesn't mean it won't happen in the future, though. Hurricanes might not be more frequent in a hotter world, but they could be more intense. The upper limit on wind velocities should increase, M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Kerry Eman uel calculates, perhaps as much as 40 m.p.h. over their current top speed of about 180. And while major urban centers won't be battered by winds...
...threat of a contempt charge and finally a broad grant of immunity for Beverly Heard to testify against Congressman Mel Reynolds at his sexual-misconduct and obstruction-of-justice trial. Once on the stand, Heard took back a previous recantation and testified that the Illinois Democrat began having frequent sex with her when she was 16 and that he often paid her as much as $100 for the encounters. She said the relationship was consensual...
Meanwhile, the scandals engulfing Harvard's Undergraduate Council are so frequent that the student government has become something of a laughingstock. This reputation stands before both the students it purports to represent and the administrators with whom it purports to engage in meaningful negotiations...