Word: musts
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...healthy teenage girl from Milwaukee who had caught H1N1 in the spring and died. The group reacted with intense discomfort and then did what humans do: they looked for a way to fit it into one of the boxes in their mind. Some speculated that the girl's doctor must have made a mistake and that's why she died. Another woman wondered if perhaps the girl had been doing whippits - inhaling nitrous oxide - and that had contributed to her death. If we tell ourselves that we can prevent catastrophe by avoiding whippits, then we have reduced the uncertainty...
...stakes are even higher for some students who were guaranteed housing, particularly for the thesis writers. FlyBy received word that now, some of Harvard's most devoted agents of pure and practical academic inquiry must now submit roughly a one-page-long proposal outlining their particular thesis projects AND (and this is a big AND) the specific resources they will need on campus...
That said, Democrats should not be totally disappointed in President Obama’s behind-the-scenes politicking because this means that at least someone is taking a definitive leadership role in a political party that has not always made the most savvy electoral decisions. President Obama must represent all of America, but he is wise to take an aggressive role in the positioning and organization of his party, not just at the nationwide level of government, but also at the state and local level...
...NATO commandos had just freed Farrell on September 9 after the Taliban kidnapped him and his translator in the Taliban-occupied Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan four days earlier. Yet four deaths in exchange for one reckless journalist’s story is an impossible transaction to defend. Journalists must exercise more caution in reporting from war-torn areas like Afghanistan. Their bravery can quickly turn into a vainglorious fixation on getting a story when others’ lives are also endangered...
...earlier, and already 362 soldiers have died this year compared to a total of 294 in 2008. The Taliban is also drawing strength from accusations of fraud in the recent elections to de-legitimize Hamid Karzai’s government. Reporters need to respect this precarious situation, and they must act with appropriate prudence...