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Five years ago the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study released its first report, bringing college binge drinking to national attention--not that it had been a well-kept secret until then. Jay Leno joked at the time, "Did it take a team of Harvard researchers to discover that college students drink?" The study did put some numbers on this behavior. Nationally, two in five students were binge drinkers, and half of these binge drinkers did so several times a week. The impact of binge drinking was not limited to the drinkers alone, but also affected others...
...Harry's parentless adventures are not unique in the world of children's literature. Instead of falling through a rabbit-hole or walking through a wardrobe, Harry journeys to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on a secret wizard train leaving from downtown London. Though the setting is modern, the basics of Harry's story ring familiar. Rowling's style and sense of humor resemble Roald Dahl's, and her storyline, full of clever twists and characters who are not quite what they seem to be, is at heart a simple tale of good versus evil...
...Secret Service, usually traveling in an entourage of American-made Chevrolet Suburbans and Lincoln Towncars, yesterday descended on Harvard with a Jaguar in tow and in it, Britain's own Prince Andrew...
...Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon," writes Robert Fulghum in my favorite of his musings. "And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air--explode softly--and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air," depositing boxes of crayons "with the sharpener built right in.... And people would smile and get a funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination...
...tell about it, over 4,000 people were either killed by Pinochet's forces or disappeared while in custody. Although the missing are still technically victims of kidnapping, one can only assume that they are dead. The criminal activity of Pinochet's forces knew no borders. His government's secret police, the DINA, assassinated prominent Chileans in Washington and Buenos Aires, and tried unsuccessfully to kill Chileans in Rome and Madrid...