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...world eating spicy food. I’ve trekked through the jungles of Thailand, rafted the rivers of Vietnam and climbed mountains (albeit small ones) in India. I’ve endured multi-course repasts of food so inundated with chiles that most of my fellow diners surrendered in pain. I’ve fearlessly sought out the incendiary spices of street food, despite repeated guidebook warnings. And not only have I survived, but I’ve enjoyed it. Nothing has been too hot for me—until now. After circumnavigating the globe, it was a restaurant right...

Author: By Helen Springut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Heat | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

Carlene M. MacMillan ’03, who is writing a thesis this fall, says “the hoops [you have to jump through] to find a committee are a pain, and not beneficial...

Author: By Margaretta E. Homsey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crunch Affects Psychology Students | 10/15/2002 | See Source »

...small village of Dangram, 460 miles northeast of Calcutta, because she is the beneficiary of what many Catholics believe is the first posthumous miracle of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late Albanian nun to the site of her pain. In August 2001, Monica's miracle was supplied to the Vatican as part of the fast-tracking of Mother Teresa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Mother Teresa Got to Do with It? | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...stop this jamboree, people coming with cameras every few hours or so." He concedes that the locket is part of the story of Monica's ordeal but says no one should suppose there was a cause-and-effect relationship between it and the cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when she used the locket, but her pain had been coming and going. Then she went to the doctors, and they cured her." Monica still believes in the miracle but admits that she did go to see doctors at the state-run Balurghat Hospital. "I took the medicines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Mother Teresa Got to Do with It? | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...forecast the future, they are, after all, the companies that other people turn to for protection against risk. Like Fortis, the entire European insurance industry has got ill from the stock market bug it caught a decade ago - and everyone who owns European stocks is feeling their pain. When interest rates dropped in the early 1990s, insurers began to load up on equities at the expense of real estate and their traditional investment mainstay, bonds. For almost a decade, rising stock prices brought substantial rewards, often helping to mask losses in core insurance operations. By the year 2000, European insurers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Insurers Crash? | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

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