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Many students would hesitate to thwart a potential hookup; after all, nobody wants to be accused of “cock-blocking.” But consider: by intervening in a sketchy situation, you are not preventing good sex; you are preventing a possible sexual assault. The absolute worst that can happen if you intervene is that your friend will be angry. Contrast this with what might happen if you don’t: someone might be raped and traumatized for the rest of his or her life...
...thwart the opportunity of a sappy moment in the brief silence that followed, Giovacchini quips, “Want to fight, Kevin...
...consider the blatant interventionist. Sarkozy brokered the €2 billion state bailout of engineering giant Alstom, angering E.U. members who called it an unfair protectionist subsidy. He also coerced Franco-German pharmaceutical giant Aventis into merging with French competitor Sanofi-Synthelabo, neither of which is state-owned, to thwart takeover plans by Swiss rival Novartis. "I'm conservative, liberal-inclined and I believe in market economics," Sarkozy says. "But when an issue lands on my desk, I don't spend time wondering what [David] Ricardo, Adam Smith or [Friedrich] Hayek would have done. Ideologies have been replaced by principles...
...lineage back to the Caesars. The army which broke into its gates was drawn from a dozen nations and was over a hundred thousand men strong. A rag-tag assortment of Venetians, Genoese, and Greeks, numbering barely seven thousand, defended the city against this horde, fighting bravely to thwart an outcome they knew to be inevitable. The last Christian Emperor died fighting, casting himself headlong into the oncoming enemy, a death that allowed the Byzantine empire to pass with an honor not usually associated with the end of a civilization. Reading accounts of the terrific battle waged on the triple...
...Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat?if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...