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...chlorination by-products, and last week the National Institutes of Health announced that it was launching a two-year study. The NCI editorial also warned about the perils of abandoning drinking-water chlorination too hastily. It noted that when Peru did that in 1991, some 300,000 Peruvians were stricken in a cholera epidemic...
Life is full of paradoxes, and Harvard life is no exception. From sophomores whose very name combines folly and wisdom to the College itself, which aspires to be both elite and democratic. Recently, I discovered a paradox useful to all who are stricken with my favorite disease: acute procrastination. After checking my e-mail every 30 seconds for an hour, popping microwave popcorn, running Yahoo searches to complete my collection of start-up sounds from "The Princess Bride" and, of course, taking naps--all to avoid studying for exams--I needed a new way to procrastinate...
...vote for reticence. The current statue--F.D.R. in his wooden kitchen chair with casters, a great cape hiding the tiny wheels from all but the most observant visitor--captures perfectly Roosevelt's cloaking of his disability. At a time when our politicians are "stricken with self-pity and given to sniveling" (to quote Mary McGrory), what a balm is Roosevelt's attitude of defiant and dignified denial...
Frans Swarttouw, former chairman of the Fokker aircraft company and one of the Netherlands' most colorful businessmen, bid an unusual farewell to his countrymen a few weeks ago. Stricken with throat cancer, the executive, 64, who once characterized an entrepreneur as "a guy who works hard, drinks himself into the ground and chases women," said he had stopped his painful therapy and opted out of a life-saving operation that would have left him an invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death...
...only after I had handed in that stack of resumes that I realized that I had taken the easy way out--and woke up panic-stricken in the middle of the night frightened by the fact that I had just applied for fifty positions that I was not even sure I wanted. The next day, I decided that it was time to take action...