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This week the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that ultimately could affect as many as one-third of all Americans - anyone in a stepfamily. But you'll probably never realize it from any news reports on the ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Stepparents Real Parents? | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...Kleinman said that since the creation of HIGH, student interest has “skyrocketed,” and he estimates that “probably somewhere between one-third and one-half of all the pre-medical students and probably a group equally as large of other students...have an interest” in global health...

Author: By Allison A. Frost and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Council Ties Up Loose Ends | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...potential is clear. A one-way journey from Boston to Washington DC on Amtrak’s Acela Express takes 9 hours and 15 minutes, but over roughly the same distance from Frankfurt to Munich, Germany’s InnerCity Express (ICE) takes one-third the time and costs $30 less. For the same journeys, flights take approximately the same amount of time as ICE, but are cheaper in Europe than in the U.S. because airlines have to compete with train fares. After adding time for transport to the airport, security and check-in, ICE is very time-competitive with...

Author: By Emily C. Ingram | Title: Plane Pain | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...would try to overturn me again.”Touché, Johnny. But the logic was lost on Kwong. “Why is it tyranny of the minority?” “Jeff, I’m done answering your question,” Haddock replied.And one-third of the UC was done as well, storming out of Emerson 105 in protest, hoping bring the meeting to a halt. If only the UC had enough mercy for itself to let it all end there. Their departure was marked by hisses and “Shame! Shame...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The UC: Out of Order | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...situation for refugees is desperate. Aid agencies that remain in the area now assist more than 3 million people--half of Darfur's population--but their work is limited by the continued fighting. The World Food Program said last week that it has received only one-third of the $746 million it needs to fight malnutrition in Darfur. It plans to halve the amount of food it distributes. Jan Egeland, the U.N.'s top humanitarian-aid official, says that because of the violence and shortfall in funds, the U.N. may have to halt some relief operations within weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darfur: The Front Lines of Genocide | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

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