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This may be one of the cases in which the cure is worse than the disease. Aside from the obvious problem no combination, no tinkle--a myriad of other inconveniences come to mind. For instance, it generally takes two hands to open a door combination lock-better make sure that towel is tied tightly around your waist. And what happens if another massive first-year food poisoning epidemic strikes Harvard? The potential chaos is inconceivable. So, in the public interest, we would like to suggest alternate solutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO COMBO, NO TINKLE | 3/2/1996 | See Source »

Enforcing these rules on the insurance companies will not be easy, either. After all, you are asking them to take customers they are statistically certain to lose money on. There are myriad subtle and unsubtle ways the companies can attract the good risks and shun the bad ones. The Kassebaum-Kennedy bill contains detailed rules about, for example, when insurance companies will be permitted to go out of business. That's just one taste of the complexities ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY HALF MEASURES DON'T WORK | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Without this goal, Rev. Gomes is telling us, there can never be and will never be on this earth anything approaching a viable humanism among the myriad contending groups who inhabit this earth--ethnic and racial groups, religious groups, linguistic groups, nationality groups, gender groups, etc. There is no notion of a viable humanism shaping the interrelations in today's world between contending groups like Azerbaijanis and Armenians, Jews and Palestinians, Tutsi and Hutu, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants (in Northern Ireland), Turks and Kurds, etc., without the reign of Rev. Gomes' goal of Christian forgiveness. And he formulates this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gomes' Confederate Memorial Proposal Succeeds in Forgiveness But Fails in Reciprocity | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...pair of colorful dancing lions and myriad other traditional Chinese performances helped the roughly 250 celebrants gathered in Lowell House dining hall last night welcome the year...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Chinese Feast Marks New Year | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

That is crucial, observes David Des Marais, a NASA biogeochemist. Liquid water is an ideal medium in which carbon-based organic chemicals can dissolve and react with one another in myriad ways. Why carbon, necessarily? Because, says Des Marais, "it is such a versatile chemical. It makes so many different and complex compounds. And it's the fourth most abundant element in the universe." Carbon compounds literally litter the cosmos, drifting through interstellar space in giant molecular clouds and making up a significant percentage, by mass, of comets and asteroids. Some scientists are convinced that the basic building blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEARCHING FOR OTHER WORLDS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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