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...site is missing a search and comments page. Though these are more complex to pro-gram, they effectively make a good site into a great one. www.fas.harvard.edu/~hnguyen...
...Valentine's Day. When the "romantic" holiday approaches on, say, a Wednesday night, it's very easy to stay home and study as usual if you're unattached. Or, if you're seeing someone and you're not especially creative, it could conceivably suffice to send along a candy-gram and call it a night. But when Valentine's falls on a Saturday night--for the first time in ten years--avoidance tactics become a recipe for disaster. Mix that in with the three-day weekend, add the teaspoon of truth that nobody has that much real schoolwork this early...
...Clinton's presidency. American and U.N. officials believe Saddam blocked the Special Commission inspection teams because they were closing in on his secret stores of biological weapons, some held by the elite Republican Guard. For example, Iraq reportedly has some 900 lbs. of the anthrax bacterium, a single gram of which can kill millions. Clinton's mission is clear: get the inspectors back into Iraq. But no policy available to him--either diplomacy or war--can readily achieve that goal...
...output from a government's arsenals, like Saddam's biological weapons, with a group of semi-independent terrorists, like radical Islamist groups, who might slip such bioweapons into the U.S. and use them. It wouldn't take much. This is the poor man's atom bomb. A gram of anthrax culture contains a trillion spores, theoretically enough for 100 million fatal doses. The stuff can be spread into the air with backpack sprayers or even perfume atomizers. The U.N.'s specialists say that 100 lbs. of anthrax bacteria sprayed around a city of 1 million could kill 36,000 people...
When King Open began as a developmental program in 1975, it "started off as an alternative pro- gram" according to Mary Eirich, the current principal of the school...