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Anatoly Dobrynin, who died April 6 at 90, was not your average diplomat. As the current U.N. Security Council so plainly put it in a statement, "He played a major role in saving the world from a nuclear disaster." Dobrynin, who worked with six American Presidents as the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., took on that position in 1962. Almost immediately, he was involved in negotiations with the Kennedy brothers to defuse the Cuban missile crisis. Originally an engineer, Dobrynin was ambassador for 24 Cold War years; altogether his storied diplomatic career lasted more than 40 years. While serving...
...put that into perspective: the average individual can tolerate up to eight hours of sound at 85 db - think busy city traffic - before suffering hearing damage. "For every 5 db over 85 db, the exposure time before irreversible damage gets cut in half," says Beth Orliss, an audiologist in New York City. To sell iPods in France, Apple had to max out the volume at 100 db, which, by the way, is as loud as a motorcycle engine...
...bags," Scott J. Yim '13 recalls. "When I walked in, the first thing I noticed was a beer pong table. The room was so littered with empty bottles and crushed cans that you had to play hopscotch to get around. My host turned to me and said, 'put your stuff down—we're going to get you wasted...
...permanent approach to lowering sodium consumption is by altering the way manufacturers produce their food, Willett said, adding that regulations are needed to help combat the overconsumption of sodium because food companies that voluntarily choose to reduce the levels of sodium in their food can be put at a competitive disadvantage...
...just a satisfactory result, they will lose out on the opportunity to complete a worthwhile project of which they feel proud. We can fairly assume that a student working on two graded papers and studying for two graded midterms, while also programming her CS 50 final project, may not put in the thought and effort necessary to create a Shuttleboy.com or an Isawyouharvard.com...