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...Attracting the highest-caliber students, and ensuring that they have the support they need to flourish during graduate school, which is such a vital stage in their intellectual and professional development, is of the utmost importance to the Graduate School,” Kirby said through a spokesperson...
...drinks every Friday evening with longstanding colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge his penchant for jogging in garish training apparel. That's Creaser's regular life. But for about a fortnight in the middle of every year this acute, vital 52-year-old breaks out, leaving the Canberra winter to join a team of scientists on the annual dig at Riversleigh, Australia's most precious treasure trove of fossils...
...holiday. "I'm very tired," he admits. "Much too much." Already he can do some resting on his laurels. Out here on the fringes of the Great Victoria Desert, where non-believers can see nothing but red earth and mulga scrub, he's made the Church a visible, vital presence...
...equipment, including a computer and fax machine, all donated by Ho, will enable Mangxi to share vital data with Kunming, 450 km away, and with Ho's group in the U.S. Yunnan's first case of HIV infection was discovered in Mangxi in 1989. Presumably the virus has been circulating here the longest; being able to include patients from the region in his study will enable Ho to tell how quickly the virus is mutating and which strains should be part of his experimental inoculation...
...cost 877 American lives, Bush remains popular among significant segments of the electorate. His sense of right and wrong, his determination that the U.S. must take the fight to its enemies, all resonate with Americans who place a premium on the defense of their nation's vital interests. Iraq - the choice to go to war there and the way the country's reconstruction has been handled - will be a key issue in the election. In one sense, this is not surprising. Iraq has been more difficult and more bloody than anyone in the Administration led the American people to expect...