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...truly bent on personal revenge, you do have some avenues to pursue. The annual guide produced by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) provides the easiest, most anonymous retorts. The "I" on a scale from 1 to 5 can be a mighty weapon, dragging down averages with ease. The utmost punishment consists of telling your classmates to avoid the teacher in question at all costs. After all, the true reward in teaching derives from having intelligent and earnest students...
...even conquer all these microbes. But anyone who reads today's headlines knows how vain that hope turned out to be. New scourges are emerging -- AIDS is not the only one -- and older diseases like tuberculosis are rapidly evolving into forms that are resistant to antibiotics, the main weapon in the doctor's arsenal. The danger is greatest, of course, in the underdeveloped world, where epidemics of cholera, dysentery and malaria are spawned by war, poverty, overcrowding and poor sanitation. But the microbial world knows no boundaries. For all the vaunted power of modern medicine, deadly infections are a growing...
Charts, maybe even more than PAC donations, have become the weapon of choice as the health-care debate grinds on in Congress. A closer look...
...handful of conspirators in a garage, like the World Trade Center bombers, would almost certainly lack the money, technical know-how or laboratory equipment to fashion nuclear raw materials into a working weapon. In fact, experts believe that it would be extremely difficult for most terrorist groups to make an atom bomb without the resources of a friendly country. The task, says Spurgeon Keeny, a physicist who is executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, is like building an automobile. Many people know how one is assembled, "but there is a lot of difference between that and sitting...
...over to terrorists. "If you just spent $300 million on something," asks a State Department specialist, would you turn it over to a band of ( terrorists "or would you keep it for your own protection?" He also wonders if Iran could keep secret forever the transfer of a nuclear weapon to Islamic militants. Tehran would have to be certain it did not leave fingerprints on the deal, or the country could become the target of reprisals -- possibly nuclear. "God help the state that gave terrorists nuclear material," says the official. "The international community's response would be dramatic...