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...Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously," she said. After she sat down, a Congressman confessed, "I never saw anything like it. Madame Chiang had me on the verge of bursting into tears." At the age of 105, Madame Chiang died last week in her Manhattan apartment...
...immediate attention: the remote but scary possibility of accidental microbial contamination from space. In H.G. Wells’ original “War of the Worlds” (1897), the superior Martian invaders were defeated in the end by “the humblest thing that God in His wisdom put upon this Earth”—by microbes, who caused the defenseless Martians to catch colds...
Although issues of interplanetary contamination may seem fantastic, they force us to confront the limits of our knowledge about life and where it might thrive. Some prominent scientists have criticized “planetary protection” as based on dubious science, but there is humility and wisdom in this approach. It is true that if our current concepts of biology are correct, then there is virtually no possibility that an alien organism, not adapted for this world, could dangerously out-compete the locals who are marvelously fit to survive here...
...Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously but to risk it gloriously," she said. After she sat down, a Congressman confessed, "I never saw anything like it. Madame Chiang had me on the verge of bursting into tears." At the age of 106, Soong Mei-ling died last week in New York...
When underage drinking is destigmatized and first years get a few words of wisdom during freshman week, they will be less likely to get dangerously sick. And without fear of discipline, students will be more likely to go to UHS when they do overdo it. While the current College policy is that students will not be punished solely for being drunk, students may fear discipline for drinking in a first-year dorm or another offense that is punishable by the administrative board—even if the punishment is a slap-on-the-wrist admonishment...