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...based on of the State Department’s travel warnings. If a country is on the list, no matter the reasons or the nuances of the travel warning itself, Harvard will give neither money for study abroad nor credit for programs completed independently in that country. While this method of assessing risk certainly reduces Harvard’s liability with respect to international travel, we students are left to question the seriousness of Harvard’s commitment to providing us with a diverse set of international experiences...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Best Insurance | 4/19/2005 | See Source »

Promptly removed, basal-cell carcinomas rarely pose a danger. There are several methods for getting rid of them. President Reagan's "pimple," and a similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Treating Reagan's Pimple | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Eaton's notion of mixing harpsichords, synthesizers, saxophones and electric guitars with a conventional orchestra may at first seem eccentric. Further, his method of microtonal tuning, which he has long advocated, requires singers and instrumentalists to produce quarter-tone intervals, so that an octave is divided into 24 pitches instead of the conventional twelve. Yet each of the disparate elements in the opera has a dramatic function, giving characters or groups of characters distinct musical personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: When the Style Is No Style | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...whether a free-market economy can co-exist with a socialist state. I think that there are no fundamental contradictions between a socialist system and a market economy. The question is what method we should use to develop the social forces of production in a more effective way. And of course, in the past the old approach was to go for a planned economy. The old method was a good method because it's good to have a plan. But according to our experience of past years, we have found that if we engage only in planning, the development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An interview with Deng Xiaoping | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...good for all). He provides some lustrous little essays on royal dandies, polyester, loafers and the making of Harris Tweed, which is still turned out by hand, in the Outer Hebrides. The weavers have resisted most new technology, he reports, although they have given up their time-honored method of preparing the yarn for dyeing. Chemicals have replaced urine as the preparation of choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Scye Is Just a Scye | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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