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...first-years, it's the first day in a new environment. It doesn't hurt to check in the mirror one more time to make sure that you didn't get toothpaste on your shirt. Bad hygiene habits might spell the end of a budding friendship in your Ec 10 section...
...border earlier this year, Washington joined Beijing ?- Islamabad?s other key ally ?- in demanding Pakistan?s withdrawal. And that left Nawaz to face the music back home. While calls for his ouster are mounting, Washington wants Pakistan?s constitution respected. And experience has made U.S. diplomats more inclined to spell out their positions ?- after all, it was in the belief that Washington would remain neutral that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and started the Gulf...
...dares a touch of expressionism, which we happily indulge, partly because he knows when to stop, mostly because the energy and conviction he and his cast bring to this movie do not permit second thoughts--at least until you are outside the theater, trying to shake off its mysterious spell...
Those statistics could spell trouble. Dr. Jon Abramson, chairman of the pediatrics academy's immunization committee, recalls that between 1989 and 1991, when many people were becoming wary of vaccines, measles-immunization rates dropped 10% and an outbreak ensued, resulting in 55,000 cases, several thousand hospitalizations and 120 deaths. "Since we started immunizing again," Abramson says, "there have been very few outbreaks of indigenous measles...
...revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe new life into the decrepit international oil cartel, OPEC ?- could spell trouble for American consumers...