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...Center for Alcohol should sponsor training sessions in each House at the beginning of the year that are required for all potential party throwers—detailing ways to improve safety at parties, from the type and quantity of alcohol served to what to do if a student gets sick. Such a policy wouldn’t limit the number of parties that students throw—it would just add another educational opportunity to express the dangers associated with alcohol...
When underage drinking is destigmatized and first years get a few words of wisdom during freshman week, they will be less likely to get dangerously sick. And without fear of discipline, students will be more likely to go to UHS when they do overdo it. While the current College policy is that students will not be punished solely for being drunk, students may fear discipline for drinking in a first-year dorm or another offense that is punishable by the administrative board—even if the punishment is a slap-on-the-wrist admonishment...
Private owners often put big cats in even more stressful environments. Backyards--let alone cages or apartments--are terribly claustrophobic for tigers. "What do you do if it's sick?" asks Lattis. "What if you get tired of it? It's a selfish, self-centered way of treating animals." Along with other conservationists, he dismisses the notion that tiger owners are somehow saving an endangered species. "These animals are never going to be returned to the wild, and they couldn't survive there anyway. Conservation isn't simply about having more tigers. It's about having more tigers in their...
...unexpected message to Planet Earth: not only had China joined the U.S. and Russia in the exclusive club of spacefaring nations, it wanted to celebrate the achievement with the whole world. For the first time in centuries, China, ever sensitive of its past as the isolated and reactionary "sick man of Asia," seemed confident of its own economic and political power, as comfortable strutting its stuff on the international stage as any member of the G-8. "Now, no one can look down on us anymore," crowed Xue Ping, a Shanghai-based software entrepreneur who was perusing Shenzhou V memorabilia...
...main victims to injuries were senior leaders Beverly Whelan and captain Mairead O’Callaghan, who struggled through the six-kilometer race. O’Callaghan was sick, while Whelan reaggravated an ankle sprain and could not finish...