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...union representing Massachusetts firefighters said yesterday it had convinced WordsWorth Books in Harvard Square to cancel an appearance by a journalist whose articles chronicling the recovery effort at New York’s Ground Zero questioned the conduct of some firefighters who helped clear the wreckage...
...Bush Administration insists its policy is zero tolerance of Iraqi violations of the latest UN Security Council resolution. Administration officials announced Monday that Iraq had violated that resolution by firing on coalition planes patrolling the "no-fly" zone over northern Iraq. But, in the same breath, they said the U.S. would not take the matter up at the UN Security Council, where any move to punish Iraqi violations would have to begin. What's going...
...Scotch." Although the future of Scotch will be determined by the performance of its basic, blended brands, there's good money to be made from the single malts - as Glenmorangie's expansion can attest. Global enthusiasm for pure malt whisky has enabled the market to grow from practically zero in the 1960s, when almost all malt whisky was sold to the big blenders, to one worth $373.5 million in sales last year. "Malt whisky," says Good, "seems to attract younger, more upscale drinkers - and they also deliver wider profit margins. It's a winning combination." Although malt whisky currently represents...
...went on to say that “virtually everything—save factors such as religion or language—have a degree of inheritability greater than zero but less than 100.” Pinker addressed his critics’ objections that a theory rooted in biology suggests that if there were no long-term consequences, then parental treatment of children is inconsequential...
First-years who hoped to ward off the “Freshman 15” by eating dining hall food with zero calories and no fat may be in for a bit of a disappointment...