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...telling that Rudenstine chose this as the one contribution he wishes to make to academic life at Harvard. These seminars--offered exclusively to first-year students--are the one aspect of the undergraduate experience that is the object of praise from just about everywhere, Mass Hall to The Confi Guide...
...them. From the esplanade of the temple of Jupiter -- once the world's largest Roman temple -- Anita Tarossian, 19, and her fiance, Hagop Bedrossian, 23, stand gazing at the temple of Bacchus below them. The Armenian-Lebanese couple have returned from Toronto this summer. They epitomize all that Hizballah objects to. A gold-and-turquoise crucifix hangs from a chain around Anita's neck. Both wear shorts and stand with their arms around each other. "We don't care what Hizballah thinks," says Bedrossian. "Let them object if they want...
...ingesting a lethal amount; not turning off the telephone or message machine, because "any changes will only alert callers to something unusual happening"; having family members avoid any direct physical assistance, so they cannot be prosecuted; and, if concealment of the cause of death is sought, telling heirs to object to an autopsy...
...counterargument is that if society requires corporations to pay for most of workers' health-care costs, society cannot object if those companies intrude on employee life-styles. But as Lewis Maltby of the A.C.L.U. notes, the question then becomes, Where do you draw the line? It is generally legal for a company to declare its workplace a smoke-free environment and punish violaters. How, though, can a corporation or government agency demand that employees like Bone refrain from lighting up away from work, especially since smoking itself is not a crime? High cholesterol levels can lead to heart disease...
...team of three astronomers in Britain claims to have spotted solid evidence of a faraway world. Writing in the British journal Nature, Andrew Lyne and colleagues at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank radio observatory report an object between 10 and 15 times the mass of the earth, orbiting a special kind of star called a pulsar that lies some 25,000 light- years (140 quadrillion miles) away...