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...plan at the March 27 Arab League summit in Beirut. That?s not going to happen while bombs are going off in Israel, Israeli tanks are rumbling through Palestinian refugee camps and Arafat is prevented from even traveling to Beirut. As General Zinni knows from experience, best-case scenarios seldom pan out in the Middle East...
...cast-iron political alibi - his latest offer is precisely what the Bush administration has asked for. Washington had long urged Sharon to drop his "seven days of calm" requirement. And in Israeli politics, the express wishes of a pro-Israel White House remain a red line that's seldom crossed...
...coursepacks are in stock. Sure, for the future biochemistry concentrator who lives in Canaday and spends most of his time in the Science Center, this isn’t a major issue. But for those government or English concentrators who live in Currier or Mather and seldom set foot in the Science Center, trekking in the dead of winter, multiple times a day is an incredible inconvenience...
...seldom see them on the cover of Prevention Magazine, but vaccines are the great prevention success story of modern medicine. They are not perceived as new or sexy; they have been around since the days of George Washington, when Edward Jenner first scraped the scabs from milkmaids infected with cowpox to inoculate people against smallpox. By the end of the 20th century, vaccines had conquered many of man's most dreaded plagues, eliminating smallpox and all but wiping out mumps, measles, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio, at least in the developed world. Vaccines had done their work so well...
...manufacturer and marketer, the CEO of Dell Computer could hardly be less enamored of tech gadgetry. His company is seldom first with a new feature or peripheral device. What excites him is cramming more processors into a server chassis or clustering a group of low-priced servers to do the work of a mainframe. He makes no apologies for sticking to the strategy he dreamed up 17 years ago in his dorm room at the University of Texas to beat IBM: sell directly to the customer and concentrate on value. "It worked then. Thing is, it works better...