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...venue, a heavily guarded army barracks about 50 kilometers north of Rangoon, seems grimly appropriate for this exercise in pseudo democracy. Residents of the capital jokingly refer to it as the "concentration camp," despite the government's assurance that attendees?who are not allowed to leave the barracks during the convention?have been furnished with "TV, karaoke, newspapers, movies, stage show, gymnasium and golf course." The 1,076 delegates, most of them handpicked by the regime, have been issued a list of stern guidelines. According to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper, "delegates are advised...
Figuring out if a child has hypertension is trickier than you might think. Because children's blood pressure naturally increases as they grow older and taller, doctors must refer to a standardized distribution chart. Readings at the 95th percentile and up indicate high blood pressure. New guidelines, scheduled to be released this summer, identify the 90th percentile to 95th percentile as prehypertension...
...recruited in those sports, as a group, now…meet a standard based on the average academic qualifications of all students at that school.” Since Harvard’s average academic qualifications are higher than those of Cornell’s, pardon me if I refer to this as the “separate, but equal” clause...
...problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America...
...month of May the Poem Box Society had decided to honor former Harvard President Leonard Hoar (1630-1675) by renaming the Box in his honor. Until June please refer to it as the Hoar House Poem Box,” he wrote in an e-mail...