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...Harvard. If going to college in general represents an eye-opening experience, then going to Harvard represents a veritable four-year orgy of opportunity and excitement. With guest speakers and seminars daily, concerts and shows, hundreds of famed professors and dozens of research opportunities—not to mention a thriving metropolis just a T-ride away—the standard advice to “make the most of college” suddenly takes on a whole new level of meaning...
...find a good solution, and the news out of the hearings is not going to make their choices any easier. In fact, chronic pain is a leading cause of lost workdays. It costs the nation an estimated $100 billion in lost productivity and increased health care, not to mention immeasurable suffering...
There's doable, and there's 300 miles, roughly the distance from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. The Karnazes megamarathon will require staying up for more than three days, not to mention the possibility of sleep running and hallucinating. "My curiosity is how far this human system can go," says Karnazes. "What is it really capable of?" His endurance is legendary in the ultramarathon community, a 12,000- to 15,000-strong collection of rabid overachievers. On the road to 300 Karnazes pursues a vampire-like training schedule, rising at 2 a.m. for 50-mile runs and then putting in a full...
...recognized the double duty that women were being asked to perform and suggested that something had to give. "If the present makeshift conditions are not cleared up, the effects can easily be imagined: a rise in absenteeism, worry, lowered morale--all of which means less production--not to mention permanent scars on the bodies and minds of American children." That was in 1943. You'd think we would have arrived at better solutions...
...Because in the past, Japan-mindful of China's position that what happens to Taiwan is nobody's business but its own-had never publicly linked itself to U.S. policy on the Strait. Indeed, the last such security statement, issued by Japanese and U.S. officials in 2002, didn't mention Taiwan at all. To add zest to the controversy, the communiqué came at the end of a week when China had already been annoyed by American musings on Taiwan. In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss, Director of the CIA had said-in another display...