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...American radicalism had reportedly prompted the Pentagon to accelerate the timetable for putting in place a friendly Iraqi leadership - preferably led by its favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmad Chalabi - in order to diminish the period of direct rule by the U.S. military. But the State Department had warned against a rush to install an exile-dominated leadership of uncertain standing among Iraqis. Next week, Garner hands the reins of the transition over to Paul "Jerry" Bremer, a seasoned State Department antiterrorism official tapped to supercede the retired general as U.S. viceroy in Baghdad. And the plans may yet change after that...
Before you rush out to stock up on tea bags, however, there are a few things you need to know. The evidence of tea's benefits is still contradictory. A few large epidemiological studies support the health claims, but others do not. Smaller experiments, like the Brigham and Women's study, can only hint at theoretical benefits. They don't prove anything. Even if tea does turn out to be some kind of general immune-system booster, the effect can't be that strong. After all, there are millions of tea drinkers in China, and yet diseases like SARS somehow...
...city. Corey Gottlieb, 39, CEO of Global Vision Interactive, whose Interactive Taxi monitors are used in the program, reports that advertisers are happy because they can run ads at appropriate times. "It wouldn't make sense," he says, "to run an ad for Bacardi rum during the morning rush...
...keep Harvard vital and competitive with other top universities, many of which have similarly liberal leave policies—making them unduly attractive to prospective faculty. But back in December, it was painfully clear to many at the University that without any thoughtful limits in place, eager professors would rush en masse to take their leave at the first possible opportunity—leaving at least some departments’ undergraduate students high and dry. Those in power didn’t have to look any further than the current 2002-2003 academic year. An astounding 18 professors were...
...such a creative rush having an idea and getting it executed,” he says of bringing the Arts First festival to life...