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...this weekend, if your control-freak Harvard brain tells you to stay in, pump up the Simon and Garfunkel mp3s and study for that wicked chem midterm that's coming up, tell your brain to go stuff it and come on down to the Grille. They barely card you there, I hear--and the first round...
...when ECAC Rookie of the Year candidate Tim Pettit outworked two Saint defenders for an empty-netter at 19:10, the Crimson erupted in euphoria and relief. Even Mazzoleni gave a violent wave and fist pump...
...cost items like shoes and garments, then moving up the high-tech ladder to refrigerators, TVs, vcrs and, eventually, computer components and software. North Korea doesn't have that luxury: it has no cash for capital investments and no private sector. South Korea has a unique opportunity to pump up North Korea's economy. Despite years of animosity, it is probably in the South's interest to facilitate the North's economic growth. "If North Korea collapses and forces premature unification, both sides would be completely ruined," says Dong Yong Seung, an economist who concentrates on North Korean issues...
Most ambitious of all is a new type of bypass procedure that allows surgeons to operate directly on a beating heart without having to resort to a heart-lung machine. Such off-pump surgery requires great technical skill, however, and isn't an option for everyone. (The best candidates have stable heart function and discrete, easily accessible blockages.) Still unknown is whether off-pump grafts last as long as conventional ones or even if the operation makes any real difference to the brain...
...other hand, Asia expert Courtis saw little hope for Japan. The Tokyo government still seemed committed to spending its way into recovery, even though all the evidence decreed that pump priming wasn't a viable solution. "In the past 30 months, they spent $1.4 trillion, and they got a little growth," Courtis observed. "If you spend the equivalent of the gross national product of France and only get 2% growth, there have to be some real problems." A big one associated with the spending policy is that Japanese government debt by the end of 2001 will amount to around...