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...compete in the local phone game would encourage the Bells to enter the long-distance phone market -- and that means more competition all around. Nader or no Nader, says McCullagh, "it looks like the merger will go through. Both Democrats and Republicans have been saying the benefits far outweigh any drawbacks...
...weighs in at a tiny fraction of the mass of the electron (until now, the lightest particle known). For elementary-particle physicists, that means their most basic theories will have to be rewritten; for astronomers, it means that the missing "dark matter" believed to pervade the cosmos and far outweigh the visible stars may no longer be missing...
Well, maybe not. For one thing, it would cost more than $1,000 a year. And the drug has potentially serious side effects, including possible liver and muscle damage, both of which could be aggravated the longer I take the stuff. Neither factor would necessarily outweigh lovastatin's benefits. But consider this: while lovastatin reduced "acute major coronary events" more than a third, 90% of those in the placebo group didn't develop such major heart problems either...
...share for the world around us. The conveniences of dining halls, summer vacation and six-minute walks to class are wonderful in helping us focus on school, but we should not allow them to make us think that we are still children whose needs for care far outweigh our ability to care for others...
...administration has not gone crazy, of course. Commencement is coming up in June, and the Yard would be even uglier than it is now if thousands of students, alumni and parents trampled the Yard into a muddy pulp. The overall artistic effects of the grassy Commencement Yard greatly outweigh the currently blue Yard. With the return of Blue is the return of that smell, the smell of that fertilizer which embodies for so many of us springtime and summer at Harvard. (You know the cool, acidic smell--the blue smell). There is always a day in springtime when one wakes...