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...expectations that surround Martin are not simply a function of the fact that he is not Chretien. They have more to do with his challenging Canadians to do something they are not always comfortable doing - to think big. In a recent interview with TIME, he kept coming back to a determination to "set ambitious goals" for his country, and it needs them. For a place that is rich and comfortable, Canada punches well below its weight on the international stage. Its armed forces - once among the finest in the world - are now a bit of a joke, with equipment that...
...hold more than about an ounce of food. Eat more than five or six bites, and you will feel a sense of nausea. Then the doctors rearrange the small intestine, the organ that actually absorbs nutrients, so that about a third of it can no longer function normally. Patients must take supplements for the rest of their life to avoid serious nutritional deficiencies. The procedure can, in theory, be reversed, though doing so would require complex surgery and the lost weight would probably be regained...
That may make iTunes the most benign-looking Trojan horse in software history. The Windows crowd can get iTunes free, and it offers almost all the same functionality as the paid versions of MusicMatch and Real One, two PC-based rivals. But iTunes is the only music application that will work with the enormously popular iPod, and it has features--like its powerful search function--that are unrivaled. "Once people are locked into using iTunes, the game's over," says Charles Wolf, an analyst at the New York City--based Needham & Co. investment bank. "They could sell an extra...
...Annie made him realize her infidelity to him. Mason and Jaggers did their best with the parts they were given, but they didn’t really give a strong sense of their characters’ personalities. This could have been Stoppard’s fault; his female characters function more as foils to the men than as lively figures in their own right. Eda Pepi ’06, as Henry and Charlotte’s daughter Debbie, was a memorable but absurdly over-the-top sexpot. And Sam G. Rosen ’06 deserved recognition...
...National College Health Assessment are consistent with statistics from other universities. In Harvard’s case, the data showed that 7.4 percent of males and 10.8 percent of females had received a diagnosis of depression at some point in their lives; 40.1 percent felt too depressed to function between one and 10 times in the last year and 7.3 percent felt this way on more than 10 occasions. These are troubling statistics, and they do not include other common problems such as anxiety disorders and eating issues...