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While Harvard's campus may be diverse, and its student body unique, undergraduates all share a common bond--Sesame Street. Who doesn't know the words to "C is For Cookie" or remember Bert teaching his pet pigeon to play checkers...
...breakthrough for the U.S. came at "the great pipeline shootout" on April 1 in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. More than 200 executives and experts from the region's oil consortiums gathered to present and compare their pet plans. To everyone's surprise, Total, the French oil giant, put forward revised numbers for its preferred option, a north-south pipeline through Iran to the gulf. By these new estimates, the Iran link would cost about $4 billion and would not be operational until 2004. This meant the line through Iran would cost as much and take as long to build...
...Rosa, testing whether the medical practice of therapeutic touch is effective [SCIENCE, April 13], underscores the fact that the mind and body combine to contribute to healing. TT may be total nonsense except when the patient believes in it. You can get the same effect by letting a patient pet and cuddle a puppy. The healing is real; it is caused not by waving hands or furry friends but by the power of the human spirit. Should puppies get paid $70 an hour for "therapy"? Doctors can't write a prescription for that--yet. STEVE STOVER Los Angeles...
...have to remind people to stay on target," Raines said, describing the tendency of today's representatives to let fiscally unwise pet projects distract them...
...story from her weather-worn mobile home on a dirt road northwest of Jonesboro. Next door is Brand Custom Hauling--the company that employs Gretchen's third husband, Terry Woodard, as a heavy-equipment operator. In the house a bobtailed cat prowls the kitchen counter while Trigger, the pet guinea pig, snoozes in its cage. "The hardest thing for me is that this was the happiest any of us had ever been," says Woodard. On the morning of the shooting, Mitch had sat at her circular kitchen table, slumped in her spindle-back chair, chuckling with his stepfather over...