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During spring break, the Opportunes traveled to Jamaica--the third most dangerous country for motorists in the world. While traveling in a taxi an oncoming motorcyclist crashed into the car while going "about ninety," as one member described it. The biker was apparently a little unsure as to the correct lane for driving in Jamaica (it's the left). No one was seriously injured, but the accident sent one of the side view mirrors flying into the backseat where the frightened Opportunes were sitting...
...will return to the U.S. in September after a string of sold-out performances last year. Riverdance the CD won a Grammy last month and remains the top-selling album on Billboard's world music chart. pbs broadcasts of both productions have garnered high ratings for the network during pledge-drive months. Taped versions of Riverdance and Flatley's new opus are, respectively, the second and third best-selling home videos in the country (just behind Bambi...
...News and World Report took the quality of physical fitness resources into account in its ranking of the nation's top colleges, one gets the feeling that Harvard might slip into the second or third quartile. And with the Kennedy School absorbing the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) fees into the tuition of students next year, effectively broadening the MAC access to all K-Schoolers, undergraduates can expect to have even more trouble keeping themselves in shape. Harvard has a responsibility to provide its students with the basic tools to remain physically fit, but the resources currently available are far from...
China has not merely joined the world community but has become the globe's third largest economy. As the trend continues, local capitalists and foreign investors will corner more than a quarter of the country's production by 2000. China raked in nearly $40 billion in capital from abroad last year and lures more foreign investment than any other developing nation. The country is already a formidable force in international trade, an export powerhouse that ranks 11th in the world...
...multicultural center will] focus on third world, backwards countries," said Griffith...