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...Islamic world and bringing democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq. But Bush told TIME in an interview last month that he views the war on terrorism as a "long-lasting ideological struggle." Appearing on the Today show last week, he seemed to express doubts that the U.S. can extinguish the threat of terrorism. "I don't think we can win it," he said. "But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world." A day later, Bush revised his position, saying that while "we may never...
...officer was sent to investigate a report of two bicycles on fire in front of Grays Hall. The officer was able to extinguish the fire...
...about. One of the many Spee’s to flee, Wes E. Stroberman ’04, claims to have been inspired to go outside and have a cigarette upon encountering the fire. When asked if he had been at all inspired to also extinguish the fire, Stroberman reported, indeed he had, but only after putting his cigarette...
Preventing symptoms, of course, is not everything. A sleeping child is completely asymptomatic, for example, but that's not the same as being fully functioning. If the drugs that extinguish symptoms also alter the still developing brain, the cure may come at too high a price, at least for kids who are only mildly symptomatic. To determine if this kind of damage is being done, investigators have been turning more and more to brain scans such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The results they're getting have been intriguing...
...Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) arrived at the popular student night hangout at 10:36 p.m. and were able to extinguish the fire before flames could engulf the building...