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...able to ignore the message that Lewis, some professors, and even peers have spent years trying to impress upon me. Last week, a casual breakfast with a resident tutor turned into an unofficial advising session. I mentioned I was shying away from writing a thesis due to a heavy load of extracurriculars, courses, a fall internship, and job searching. “I need to slow down,” I told him. Though disappointed to be abandoning a project I’d already spent a semester on, I had scared myself into thinking that I was approaching senior...
...catch limits. Having eaten whale and enjoyed it, I fail to see any moral difference between eating whale and eating beef, as long as we are responsible in utilizing the resources of the planet. Jan Magnussen Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S. Preparedness Pays Off Re "Sharing the load" [july 3], on the progress made in providing assistance to Africa since last year's G-8 summit: When large populations are brought to the brink of crisis, international aid interventions are hugely expensive and logistically complicated. The solution is to give people the ability to be resilient in case natural disasters...
...Lebanese--who lived through far worse than this during the civil war--are determined to put up a steely front. Every time I go to a supermarket to collect quotes from supposedly terrified families stocking up on essentials, I end up being the one with the largest shopping-cart load of canned goods and batteries. But it's hard to escape the sense of dread that looms over the country. "Twenty years of reconstruction are being destroyed in a few days," the Tourism Minister, Joseph Sarkis, moaned to me from his nearly abandoned ministry. The owner of a subterranean nightclub...
...heard Sergeant Robert Dowdy give the order to lock and load. Jessi grabbed the slide on the side of her M-16, tugged it back and tried to chamber a round. It jammed. She had cleaned it every day, but the grit had swirled in through the truck's windows all day and clogged it again with grime. She snatched at it, trying to eject the jammed cartridge...
Wilson will help operate the shuttle’s robot arm, which includes a special extension equipped with new cameras and laser scanners to assess the vehicle’s health. As the load master, Wilson will maneuver the mechanical appendage to deploy and retrieve cargo packages from to and from the space station...