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...delights Cox, who believes that only people like her can prevent the loss of centuries of knowledge. If he can carry Salome's knowledge to the developed world in the form of plants whose myriad chemical compounds might help combat incurable diseases--notably cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer's--the impetus to save the Samoan rain forest, and all forests, will be that much stronger...
Even the human-rights groups that provided the impetus for the Oslo meeting do not categorize the U.S. as a sinner. They wanted Washington to sign mainly to put pressure on other major states to get aboard. Now it is unlikely that Russia, China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and others will sign on. Nor will North or South Korea. But most of the civilian casualties are suffered in such war-torn states as Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan, Namibia and Mozambique, where millions of abandoned mines lie in wait. Those countries are expected to sign...
...point of the contest is to let students' ideas run wild," said HSA President Amit Tiwari '98. "We're not looking for a very professional business plan-what we're mostly looking for is the spark that could be the impetus for getting a full-fledged business going in the future...
...somewhat disappointed that the MAC had to rely on an anonymous donation for necessary changes. Even associate director of athletics John E. Wentzell agrees that "this has been needed." This is a gross understatement; Harvard's athletic facilities are a scar on the College. Embarrassingly, the impetus for change came from outside the University...
...film project is nothing new for Gates, who traveled from Zimbabwe to Tanzania last August, and narrated a BBC program about that 3,000-mile trip. The success of that program was the impetus to work on another, Gates said...