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...semester senior, you are given the opportunity to look upon Harvard with eyes that are both old and new. For, now left largely unattached by social concern and freed for the most part from academic expectation, Harvard seems different to you. It presents itself in a manner that is modest and unassuming, and you, in turn, can gaze upon it with the same unprejudiced eye with which you first viewed everything that first year, except now the sight is not nearly so overwhelming. You may still wonder at the impossibility of Widener (or the improbability of the Science Center...
...inconspicuous two-lane road near the city of Beaverton, Ore., a cluster of modest concrete-and-glass buildings nestles amid ponds, fields and magnificent groves of evergreens--an oasis of natural beauty standing firm against the encroaching suburbs. Only a pair of football-field-size enclosures surrounded by 9-ft.-high sheet-metal walls and monitored from a watchtower give the hint that this is something more than just an unusually idyllic office park. The huge pens suggest a dinosaur paddock from Jurassic Park--an image reinforced when whatever is inside inexplicably starts slamming violently against the metal walls...
...Incoming President Arroyo is a modest and moderate economist and former Georgetown University classmate of President Clinton, and she has vowed to pursue the economic liberalization policies started by the conservative former president Fidel Ramos. But it remains far from clear that Estrada's removal will end the corruption and almost theatrical political instability that have become endemic to the Philippines. Business and politics have been intimately and often improperly intertwined for decades in the Philippines, and the World Bank estimates that corruption has cost the country some $48 billion over the past 20 years. It was precisely by (falsely...
...little as two weeks. A next, obvious step was to look for humans with the same defective gene. In Britain, endocrinologist Stephen O'Rahilly of the University of Cambridge did find a pair of leptin-deficient children, one of whom at age 9 weighed a staggering 208 lbs. After modest leptin treatments were begun, both children began dropping weight at a steady rate that sometimes exceeded 4 lbs. a month...
...producers had agreed to modest increases in the supply when prices rose way about $30 a barrel last fall, but a substantial fall in prices in December is prompting moves to once again restrict the supply. Leading OPEC members such as Saudi Arabia have set a target price range of between $22 and $28 a barrel - a figure Washington can live with despite Energy Secretary Richardson's lobbying against a cut, because it represents minimal inflationary pressure...