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...plenty of time left." Believe me, as a senior, just three years ahead of you, I can attest to it. This summer, I have several promising jobs, including (paid!) work at ESPN, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS Sports, plus a new girl on the horizon. Not bad for a guy who once thought that love and fame were well beyond his reach...
...Nicaraguan urban shanty dwellers were more vulnerable to the flooding caused by Hurricane Mitch than were their middle-class neighbors, while the burden of last year?s harsh Northern Hemisphere winter was heaviest for the 44 million Russians who live in poverty. "Even greater calamities are looming on the horizon, and the global impact of problems such as disease make it unwise for the U.S. to ignore," says Dowell. "Unfortunately, we?ve tended to break down rather than build up the multinational forums appropriate for dealing with these crises, such as the United Nations." Washington and its NATO pals...
Though the loss of seven seniors and a brilliant coach looms over next season like a gray cloud, another silver lining appears on the horizon. The freshman class of 1998 has kept the flame of hope burning for Crimson fans. Margaret Elias, who had been the No. 2 player in the country as a high school senior, has blossomed in the No. 1 slot for Harvard this year...
...absorbed by the body without vitamin D. The ultraviolet rays of the sun manufacture D in the skin, but the efficiency of the factory declines with age. It drops even further if you live in the northern half of the country, where the sun is too low on the horizon half the year to help, and even lower if you keep your skin covered to protect it from cancer...
...explosion drove skittish customers away. And with each new pratfall the domestic fleet suffers, the U.S. share of the launch market looks shakier still. In the 1980s, the U.S. controlled 75% of the world's commercial-launch business; that figure is now about 45%, with new competitors on the horizon. "Until Lockheed and Boeing sort out the glitches," warns Marco Caceres, an analyst for the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va., "they are not going to compete...