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...first day, it seemed an exaggeration to say that the intifadeh had returned, that the Palestinians had resumed their six-year, rocks-and-bottle uprising against Israeli occupation. Still, in Jerusalem, stones had flown and sticks had flailed as Palestinian protesters battled Israeli cops. But that was all. By the second day, however, the violence had spread, shots had been fired, four people were dead and the term intifadeh was no longer an overstatement. On Day 3, a new description would be required for the confrontation raging between Israelis and Palestinians. There was no other word...
Just as Harvard students arrived in Cambridge early last week, campuses around the country were buzzing with the results of U.S. News and World Report's ranking of the nation's best colleges. The annual survey shook up the traditional hierarchy among the Big Three, ending Harvard's six-year streak as the top college in the nation. Adding insult to injury, the U.S. News survey dropped Harvard right past second to a lowly third, behind Yale and Princeton, respectively. Harvardians responded with a mix of consternation and indifference to the news that their alma matter had fallen from...
...mighty Harvard has fallen. After a six-year string of aces in U.S. News and World Report's annual issue about America's Best Colleges, it has slipped...
...seemingly conflicting indicators. The first, which is consumer debt, shows that Americans are deeper in hock than ever; the average household owes more than $52,000. Yet a widely watched index of consumer confidence issued by the Conference Board, a business research group, soared in August to a six-year high. It all makes perfect sense to board economist Delos Smith, who says, "People are using plastic to buy all sorts of things, and they feel good about it." But as that debt mounts, more than 1 million people are expected to wipe their slates clean in bankruptcy court this...
HANTAVIRUS. In 1993 a six-year drought followed by heavy rains produced a tenfold increase in the population of deer mice in the American Southwest, leading to an outbreak of a deadly form of pulmonary hantavirus. The disease, which first appeared on a Navajo reservation, has since spread to 20 states and killed 45 people, nearly half of those infected...