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...Gennaro said in a prepared statement thatthe College Library faces "enormous spaceproblems." Harvard also must manage a hugecollection of older books that includes many whosehigh paper acidity is causing rapid deterioration
...report published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers revealed that daily doses of aspirin, or of a blood-thinning medication called warfarin, could sharply curtail the risk of stroke in patients suffering from atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the heartbeat is rapid and irregular. The 1 million Americans who have this abnormality face five times the normal risk of stroke. The study, which was to involve 1,244 patients over four years, found that the drugs could cut that risk so dramatically, by 80%, that research was halted after just two years so that...
While the vote was widely interpreted as a grass-roots thumbs-up for the rapid unification of the two Germanys, preparations for the funeral of the G.D.R.'s failed experiment in communism have only begun. To guide East Germany through the intricacies of unification, the triumphant conservatives in East Berlin must first build a government. Last week the CDU reached out to the Social Democrats, asking them to join a "grand coalition" in hopes of forging the two-thirds parliamentary majority required for constitutional changes...
...period in history is characterized by an unusually rapid growth of knowledge, and it follows that the proportion of outdated facts and theories will be unusually large. Classics of permanent value are confined almost exclusively to the humanities." (from The University: An Owner's Manual, pp. 102-103.) James A. Davis
...impetus for Middlesex's investment was its enormous paper problem, Kinsella said. Rapid development in Middlesex coupled with the changes in the tax law in 1986 greatly increased the flow of deed transactions...