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...discovered that women physics majors hated it,” Georgi says. “That struck me as absolutely intolerable because these were the women that stuck with it and hated it. I wanted to understand this...
...wasn’t until Herring’s sophomore year at Harvard, when they were a full 16-hour drive apart, that the two began dating. Herring says he struck up a conversation with Webb over AOL Instant Messenger and took her on a bowling date during their Thanksgiving break. By Christmas, their relationship became official. Herring says he proposed to Webb at the camp where they first met—“the spot where we had our first kiss,” he explains. She agreed, and the couple plans to marry this summer in Tennessee...
...Obviously a crucial balance has to be struck between the public health imperative and our tradition about being an open community,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said last week...
...Iraq is the key, in the Bush administration's most optimistic scenario, to remaking the Middle East to drain the swamp that breeds international terrorism. A swift and decisive military victory has provided an awesome demonstration of U.S. power and resolve, and struck down the traditional boast of Osama bin Laden's propagandists that the U.S. is afraid of a fight. Considerably less certain, however, are the prospects for a rapid postwar transition in which Iraq becomes the Arab world's first democracy with a prosperity and Western orientation Washington hopes will serve as a wakeup call to a deeply...
...Some 41 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq over the past six weeks, the latest one on Thursday when a rocket-propelled grenade struck an American vehicle in the town of Fallujah. Although more have been killed in accidents than in attacks thus far, there's certainly an uptick in hit-and-run strikes by Iraqi fighters sheltering in the civilian population. U.S. officials suspect Saddam loyalists for the attacks, which have been mostly concentrated north of the capital in predominantly Sunni Muslim strongholds of the Baath Party...