Word: minority
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...number of minor repair jobs--ranging from installing storm windows to reattaching towel racks--will continue throughout the week, meaning that a flurry of work will continue as students get settled...
Operations were only slightly hindered by minor labor strikes, but it remains unclear whether major aspects of the most ambitious renovation project in Harvard's history will be finished on schedule. At Lowell House and Winthrop House for example, workmen were supposed to be packing their tools by last week, but huge swatches of scaffolding and signs warning. "Danger: Hard Hard Hats Required," remained up through the weekend. The $40 million repair jobs include extensive interior repairs as well as exterior structural work...
Responsibility for three of the minor attacks was claimed by Direct Action, a small group of anarchists. No one assumed the responsibility for the shooting at Goldenberg's, but police suspect it was the work of Black June, a dissident Palestinian group. Yet the escalation of terrorist attacks in France is not limited to anti-Jewish violence. Two days after the Goldenberg's massacre, two bombs, one on the Champs-Elysées and one at the Iraqi embassy, injured six people. Since May, terrorist attacks of all kinds in Paris have killed 20 and wounded...
...million Americans who suffer from arthritis. Oraflex (chemical name: benoxaprofen) seemed to be less irritating to the stomach than aspirin, the staple treatment for arthritis victims. The drug produced side effects, notably an increased sensitivity of the skin and nails to the sun, but these seemed minor compared with the benefits...
...more complex structure than early chronicles had suggested. Begun in 1325, it was constructed in successive stages, each Aztec Emperor making his own contribution by building a new temple on top of his predecessor's. So far the archaeologists have sliced into seven major levels, plus several minor ones. The best-preserved is the second, completed in 1390, a date derived from a plaque inscribed with carvings from the 52-year Aztec calendar. Even the bases of the shrines to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc remain intact, including a strikingly modern motif of parallel lines that may represent rain. By contrast...