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...thread of a 5-4 decision hangs the ruling that affirmed the consideration of race as one of many factors in the admissions process. One of the two majority opinions emphasizes the positive effect diversity has on education. Harvard's efforts are also lauded as a model for other schools to follow...
...Resources Negligible, is a planet whose residents arrived from Earth many generations before and have reverted to a medieval lifestyle, losing their knowledge and understanding of advances such as computers. Fire-breathing dragons flourish on the planet, genetically engineered by the first settlers of Pern to combat the dreaded Thread--a corrosive substance that threatens Pernese existence every 200 years...
...critters well, so I just had to decide what kind of a dragon I wanted and what it was for," she says. "You can't just plant a new creature down on a new planet without establishing a niche for it." Fighting the Thread with fire become her dragons' niche on Pern...
...Imperial China, the royal physician was forbidden to touch the Emperor directly. A princeling would attach a long red thread to the Emperor's wrist, and the physician would grasp the thread, feeling the Emperor's pulse at a respectful distance. Governing Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese sovereignty at midnight on June 30 will require the same exquisitely sensitive touch: an ability to understand Beijing from a distance, to sense what its leaders want and what they will tolerate...
Officially, the physician's red thread has been given to Tung Chee-hwa, a Hong Kong multimillionaire who lived for nine years in the U.S. and was handpicked by the communist bosses in Beijing to carry out their promise of a "high degree of autonomy" for the capitalist enclave. Looking over his shoulder, however, is an ardent spokesman for those who insist that Hong Kong can rule itself. Martin Lee stakes his claim to leadership on the voter's mandate to make Beijing live up to democratic...