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...port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying to glean what plans the country's military rulers might be making -- either to avoid an invasion by finally stepping down or to organize their troops to resist. Diederich touched based with longtime sources in and around Port-au-Prince, looking for cracks in the army's support...
...opponents, barely got past the House last year. This year it may not even lift off the pad of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Influential Chairman GEORGE BROWN, worried about the project's effect on other items in the nasa budget, has told the President to glean some money from elsewhere for the station -- perhaps from foreign aid or environmental programs -- or else Brown's pivotal vote for the project will stay grounded...
From this, all Harvard students should glean a valuable lesson in humility. Having come mostly from environments where they were solitary shining stars, they should learn from their experiences here the dangers of arrogance--no matter how talented you are, someone is always more so. The knowledge should make them more mature, more aware of their place in the scheme of things...
Federal rules require that research pose only a minimal potential risk to youngsters and glean important information about a medical condition. The study doesn't qualify, the groups charge. They claim that HGH therapy may increase the chance of developing cancer. Moreover, shortness is not a medical condition but a social problem. "There's no physical risk to being short," declares Dr. Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee. Adds the foundation's Jeremy Rifkin: "NIH can't experiment on healthy kids if there's no medical problem...
...Bradbury has a musician's ear, and he makes their boozy exchanges as bright and merry as coins clinking on the bar of a pub. Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable walk-on, defining the people around him: "The Irish. From so little they glean so much: squeeze the last ounce of joy from a flower with no petals . . . The Irish? You step off a cliff . . . and fall...