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...fear that Williams knew about the surveillance and might destroy suspected criminal evidence that prompted FBI agents to approach him last Wednesday. Indeed, the suspect did know he was being tailed. "They apparently weren't very good drivers," he observed. "I caused them to have a minor accident." Williams characterized his twelve hours of questioning at Atlanta FBI headquarters as "accusations and threats the whole time." He submitted to three lie-detector tests and said he was told that "all my answers were deceptive." This, he explained, might be attributed to his nervousness. Other evidence was sought after authorities...
Harvard, however, made minor changes in the Red Book report. Instead of requiring each and every student to take a particular course in three different areas (as Columbia with its gargantuan Western Civilization still does), Harvard's system offered four courses in each of three areas: the Humanities, the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences. In addition to concentration and distribution requirements, a student had to take one full course in each of these three areas. Much like the Core, Gen Ed was debated for a year and finally bestowed on the class of 1950. The idea was to give...
...role of mineral resources in modern society constraints imposed by availability on political well-being of nations and of mankind as a who reserves, technology, price, rates of production a impact, population growth, and per capita incon major metals, several minor metals, fuels, and these resources and their implications for the future...
Treating Atherosclerosis. This condition refers to the narrowing of the arteries by a buildup of fatty deposits. Today many heart specialists theorize that atherosclerosis is a complex process that starts with a minor injury to the smooth single layer of cells that line the arteries in a cobblestone pattern. Researchers speculate that the damage may result from cigarette smoking, high blood pressure or virus infection...
...sunk into a lethargy that borders on inertia. Tremont sets him some routine household chores, then coaxes him into the outside world, and the old man begins to show sparks of vitality: "You get in the habit of working and then forget how to have fun." After a minor operation, however, Dad slides into senility. Tremont brings him home from the hospital and tries caring for an incontinent adult incapable of feeding himself. The effort is heroic but doomed. Dad is sent to a nursing home, presumably...