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The possibilities are endless for the Harvard women’s basketball team in the 2007-2008 season. With a core of veterans, talented freshmen, and a steadfast coach, the Crimson will know no bounds this year. Harvard begins its title defense Saturday with its first game of the season...
And at least in some parts of the country, opinion is shifting in their favor. According to the National Health and Social Life Survey, the total proportion of U.S.-born males who were circumcised peaked in 1965 at about 85%, dropping to 77% in 1971, the last year of the...
The BBC's enduring belief that it must stay in the forefront of changes in the wider media environment has driven its growth. The Corporation ballooned in the 1990s, adding staff (numbers peaked at more than 27,000 in 2004; they now stand at 23,000 before the new cuts...
Long grown in the fertile Bekaa, cultivation of the cannabis sativa plant peaked during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war when the northern half of the valley was carpeted in hashish and opium poppies, turning simple farmers into multi-millionaire drug barons. In the early 1990s, the Lebanese government and...
It may have contributed to the madness of Nero and Vincent Van Gogh. Now that it’s been found in the drinking water of Brown University, Brunonians can consider themselves part of a grand tradition of lead-eating crazies. While doing a lab on heavy metals for the...