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...people, when American patriotism didn't seem to mean hating the immigrant. It was a time when we made decisions based on what we thought we knew, not on what we thought--when it was possible for me to be a Republican. It was a time that could only occur in childhood, and only, for us, in the 1980s. It was Ronald Reagan's America, and, with our young eyes, we could see it better than anyone...
Although scientists have determined which regions of the earth are statistically prone to earthquakes, Dziewonski says they are far from being able to predict when and where the next earthquake will occur...
...said--makes no excuses for them. Snakes kill more than 20,000 humans a year, he admits, mostly farmers in the tropics who are accidentally bitten by vipers, although boots and antivenom have reduced the toll in recent years. In the U.S., where 1,000 to 2,000 snakebites occur annually, mostly by rattlesnakes and copperheads, fewer than 10 result in death. The majority of victims, says Greene, who has been nailed only once ("not seriously" by a copperhead as a teen), are "macho types"--young men who handle venomous snakes carelessly. "Snakes are more afraid of us than...
Like it or not, drinking is a mainstay of college life. Ideally, alcohol would be consumed responsibly and in moderation and alcohol poisoning, aspiration or falling off roofs in a drunken stupor (all causes of the deaths of various college students over the past several years) would never occur. Although we are aware that we do not live in an ideal world, irresponsible drinking needs to stop and more efforts to heighten the awareness of rising first-years needs to start...
According to officials at MIT's ROTC program, these problems occur primarily because the military does not view cadets as free agents-it sees them as good investments...