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...this point, it would have seemed foolish to predict that I would ever find Catholics whose faith I could respect. Fortunately, when God acts, the odds don’t matter. Through my deep involvement in Harvard Right to Life and a serendipitous blocking experience which paired me with a devout roommate I hadn’t gotten to know yet in my first year, I discovered a group of active and faithful Catholics (N.B.: you do not have to be Catholic to be pro-life—my mother was once vice president of Michigan Lutherans for Life?...
...researchers looked at data from the 1990s which gave the number of infections caused by strains of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae that were not treatable by certain antibiotics. They then employed a mathematical model of disease transmission to predict the prevalence of such drug-resistant strains in the future...
Cederman said he could not predict the outcome of the Summers-Kissinger task force, but said he doubted that the current American political climate would allow for change...
...whether they will turn on that condemned dictator and help the forces of Iraq's liberation." But Pentagon officials concede that the surprising resistance shown by the most loyal of Iraq's forces means that Washington cannot count on an uprising. Nor does the easy run to Baghdad predict how hard Saddam's men may fight inside the capital. Administration officials still hope Saddam's government will implode under the tightening pressure. But as U.S. forces encircled the city, Rumsfeld cautioned that the regime "may prove to be more lethal in the final moments...
...occasionally obnoxious, but perhaps early hiring practices may make a significant difference to the quality of TFs in the sciences. It may also not significantly improve the standard of teaching in that area. After taking only three Core classes in math and science, I can’t predict the outcome with any degree of certainty. I do know, however, that humanities will be largely unaffected—their shortcomings run deeper than poor instructors...