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...once gender-segregated—was a victory for equal rights. That women’s groups would now be calling for gender-specific space is a matter of heavy irony. And what’s being cast as a lack of space for women is really just a symptom of a larger, more pressing problem: a need for an integrated student center for all Harvard undergraduates...
...advanced lung cancer. If you have a cancer that can be operated, that can be removed, you have a very good chance, a better chance than not, of being able to be cured. But the problem is that most people who go to doctor with some sort of symptom already have advanced lung cancer, so it's too late...
...Nietzscheian principle: what doesn't kill them makes them stronger. As germs reproduce, some mutate, randomly developing genetic traits that give them some protection against treatments that were effective against their progenitors. (Viruses, which cause the common cold, are impervious to antibiotics.) By administering antibiotics at even the slightest symptom, physicians and patients are multiplying the opportunities for stronger strains to flourish. Trouble has already appeared in the developed world: in the U.S., where experts estimate that half of all antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary, about 90,000 people died from antibiotic-resistant infections last year, up from...
Soviet-American summitry is a relatively new and curious phenomenon in the annals of diplomacy. It focuses on arms control, which deals with a symptom rather than with the underlying cause of the hostility between the two nations. Traditionally, rulers or their envoys have met to discuss more fundamental issues. For centuries they came together to reshape their alliances and discreetly sort out their spheres of influence. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are in a paradoxical and unprecedented position. Their irreconcilable differences prevent them from making real peace; nuclear weapons prevent them from making war. Partly for that reason...
...after a while the mask of courtesy began to slip a bit. On Saturday the Soviets wheeled out their designated American hit man, Georgi Arbatov, who asserted that the summit "is not a symptom of improved relations but a test for worsening relations." Arbatov went from cynical to surly at a press conference when a man attempting to ask a question identified himself as a representative of the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Stockholm. "No," Arbatov snapped, "it is the Committee for anti-Soviet Jewry...