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...difficulties faced so far do not outweigh the good, and a great amount of critically important aid is getting through to those in such pitiable need. The United States, whose giving to this point ranks only fourth worldwide, has taken the lead in actually delivering the aid now arriving. The men and women of the Seventh Fleet have distributed badly needed food, medicine and potable water to some of the most remote and ravaged regions. While further efforts are needed to ensure that epidemics of communicable disease do not result, the world seems to have summoned enough willpower...
...caveat: desktop search might make it "marginally" easier for hackers to steal your private data, Gartner research director Allen Weiner says. But Weiner and most analysts agree that the rewards greatly outweigh the risks. If you've got a firewall--and anybody with Windows XP has one by default--you should be fine...
...progestin. It turns out that taking estrogen alone also raises a woman's risk of stroke and blood clots. There are benefits from taking estrogen--among them, better bone health and relief from hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms--but after two years, doctors say, the benefits no longer outweigh the risks...
...superpowers, sleep deprivation dulls the mind and nervous system--rapidly, profoundly and invariably--many people still insist that they are the exception. For them, the perceived satisfaction of heightened productivity, extra hours spent with friends and family, and uninterrupted late-night sessions in front of the computer or television outweigh the supposed benefits of unconsciousness...
Harvard’s tax exemption is given because society believes that the organization provides indispensable services—services that far outweigh the remunerative sum of a property tax. Harvard students provide sustenance for Cambridge businesses while training for a lifetime of giving back to the community. A large endowment and large prospective tax revenues don’t change that...