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...Walter H. Annenberg, media magnate and prolific philanthropist who gave $25 million to Harvard undergraduate education, died yesterday of pneumonia...
...overshadowed by deals at the expo, however, as U.S. companies inked new multi-million-dollar pacts with government-run hotels, restaurants and supermarkets, as well as foreign-run enterprises on the island. Some reasoned that engaging Cuba economically will, in the long run, help transform the country democratically. Michael Walter, 33, president of Splash Tropical Drinks in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., was poised to sign a marketing partnership in Cuba and the Caribbean with Cuba's state-owned rum company, Havana Club. "If a country is a threat to us, that's one thing, but I don't think Cuba...
...newest weapons from Russia?a pair of Sovremenny-class destroyers with advanced Sunburn anti-ship missiles, and four Kilo-class submarines?could damage the U.S. fleet. But U.S. ships and their systems "were designed to deal with the much more capable Soviet Navy with scores of excellent subs," says Walter Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense in the Clinton years...
...impossible for most of us. Just attempting to list the fields of knowledge where expertise would be required strains my own ignorance: aeronautical engineering, Middle Eastern politics, nuclear physics, um, microbiology? Clinical psychology? Without a clue about most of these subjects, how can citizens think rationally about them? Walter Lippmann, in his famous 1922 book, Public Opinion, said the solution was to turn over most public-policy questions to boards of experts...
Genes, of course, do not make us fat. They merely set up a susceptibility to gaining weight under certain conditions--and without question, those conditions are now ubiquitous. In essence, says Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, sedentary lifestyles and a cornucopia of food have transformed people into the equivalent of corn-fed cattle confined in pens. "We have created the great American feedlot," he says...