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Against Yale, her speed in getting rid of the ball jumpstarted the Crimson attack...
...Bush got the ball rolling in Europe when he called for the elimination of NATO's nuclear-tipped artillery shells and Lance missiles. Now he may not be able to stop it. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have told Washington that they want to finish the job by getting rid of the only nukes that would remain: the bombs carried by 1,100 American and 300 NATO aircraft. Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell says the U.S. will keep the arsenal. But privately, senior U.S. officials concede that by the end of next year Europe will probably be a nuclear-free...
...Hacib Aoun of Baltimore is one of 40 U.S. health workers known to have ) become infected with AIDS on the job. Like many doctors, he deplores the CDC recommendations and prefers New York State's approach. "The CDC guidelines mean that hospitals will just get rid of their infected doctors no matter what," says Dr. Aoun. "I understand the Bergalis family's pain. I understand it better than anybody else. But their efforts have set AIDS education and treatment in this country back by many years...
...they fell into the wrong hands. He had barely reached the letter c when he gave up the task as hopeless. After Hoover's death, his faithful secretary, Helen Gandy, had the personal files secretly transferred to the director's home. It took her 2 1/2 months to get rid of them all. Destroying the files may have been illegal, Gentry writes, but it was an honorable attempt to preserve Hoover's good name and that of the bureau. Gandy knew the real secret of the files: "nothing they contained was as derogatory as the very fact that they existed...
...apocryphal, but they say that the information generated by human beings doubles every 10 years. In order to make room in your head for all the new information that's generated, you have to get rid of a lot of the old information. I think younger people maybe tend to simply not see print or text as being as important for psychic survial as older people, or even people my age. I think that's better for them in a way. Nature always ensures the survival of her babies...