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Performances this weekend will decide which Crimson and Bulldog athletes will make the combined team. The winners of each event will automatically earn a spot, while other high-placing finishers will be selected by coaches to join the squad. The Harvard-Yale team will take the highest-placing athletes of the day, but each school must comprise at least 1/3 of the England-bound group...
...psychedelics good for you? It's such a hippie relic of a question that it's almost embarrassing to ask. But a quiet psychedelic renaissance is beginning at the highest levels of American science, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Harvard, which is conducting what is thought to be its first research into therapeutic uses of psychedelics (in this case, Ecstasy) since the university fired Timothy Leary in 1963. But should we be prying open the doors of perception again? Wasn't the whole thing a disaster the first time...
...reason the Shanghai stock market cratered Thursday is that this has happened before: in the early '90s, authorities in Beijing let inflation get out of hand, and a hard landing ensued. In the first quarter of this year, inflation at 2.7% was at its highest level in two years, and money supply in China has been, in the view of some economists, excessive for quite a while now. Is fine-tuning really an option? Or is this freight train now rolling with such momentum that a messy derailment is likely, if not inevitable? Jun Ma, the chief economist at Deutsche...
...destination, and easier to reach than you'd think. From Marrakech, it's a mere 90-minute drive up a winding valley road to the Toubkal National Park. Before you know it, you're sipping mint tea atop a sun-drenched terrace ogling the Djebel Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak...
...nationwide furor began when Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty appeared together at an AIDS-awareness function in New Delhi last Sunday. The event was supposed to highlight the risky sexual behavior of truck drivers, who have some of the highest rates of HIV infection in India. At one point in the proceedings, Gere embraced Shetty, bent her back in an exaggerated kind of dance hold and kissed her on the cheek. If it looked slightly awkward, Shetty said later, that's because it was unexpected. "Richard does not understand Hindi," she told a press conference...