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...Engineers (8-12-1, 2-10-2 ECAC), currently battling with Princeton for last in the conference, represent an opponent with far less talent than Harvard. However, in the past, Harvard has allowed losses in the Beanpot to trigger a domino-like losing streak, a fact of which Mazzoleni is keenly aware...
...Saud said that the proposal was prompted by concern that the collapse of central order in Iraq could trigger a civil blood bath as well as a regional conflict, perhaps drawing in neighbors like Turkey and Iran. The Saudi initiative is also intent on preventing any war from being a unilateral U.S. action that could inflame Arab nationalist passions and thereby undermine the domestic standing of America's Arab allies, including Saudi Arabia. "My god, the idea of an occupation of Baghdad by the armed forces of the United States is unimaginable," said Saud. "This is the capital of Harun...
Beneath the Administration's confidence that a war with Iraq can be won quickly with limited U.S. casualties lurks an anxiety about the catastrophic events an invasion might trigger. "We can overthrow Saddam Hussein, no doubt about it," says a Central Command planner. "The question is, Can we do it and keep his weapons of mass destruction bottled up at the same time?" The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no. "If they come," said Uday Hussein last week, "Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic...
...sense of menace. For the parent of the big bergs, the Ross Ice Shelf, is a floating extension of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which, for the past 10,000 years, has been slowly slipping into the sea. Should that ice sheet start a more rapid slide, it would trigger a lot more havoc than a few hulking icebergs...
Does marijuana use trigger subtle biochemical changes that encourage drug-taking behavior? Or does cannabis give kids an entree into social circles where stronger drugs are used? The study doesn't have all the answers, but it does offer kids another reason to heed their elders. --By David Bjerklie