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...reasons he chose to become a mathematician is that it would allow him to continue a serious study of music. "I knew that with math it would be possible to be doing what I'm doing nowadays—researching and earning a living as a mathematician, while still being involved with music on a very high level." On a professional level, in fact. Last month, two of his compositions were performed in Boston, one by the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the other by the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Some of his work will also be performed next month...
...factory assembly line and English-language classes at the local community college. And my father has signed up for the night shift at the baking company where he works, often logging more than 60 hours a week, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Their mismatched schedules allow only brief day-to-day interactions. A cup of coffee over a rushed breakfast as my mom struggles to ready three little girls for school and my dad struggles to stay awake long enough to drive us there. A phone call home during my mom's lunch break to make...
...Asia, some have even begun to question the usefulness of IMF interventions in general. On the one hand, were the IMF not to intervene in financial crises, foreign creditors who lose their money might be unable to pay their debts to lenders elsewhere--a cycle of defaulting loans would allow financial crises to spread uncontrollably, bringing down banks in Boston as well as Bangkok. On the other hand, however, there is a danger that the possibility of bailouts could create a moral hazard and encourage speculators to float high-risk loans, secure in their knowledge that the IMF will...
...around Lazaro Gonzalez's home in Little Havana, and that's an option for which Reno appears to have little stomach - an impression underscored by increasingly vocal and public criticism from inside the Justice Department of her handling of the case. An offer Wednesday by the Miami relatives to allow a meeting between Elian and his father was rejected by the father's lawyers unless it resulted in custody for their client...
...disease-fighting capabilities of various foods and supplements," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "And most of those claims remain totally unsubstantiated by long-term studies." In that light, it's important to take every new proclamation about diet with a grain of salt, Smith continues. "Before we allow our hopes for disease prevention to run away with our common sense, we need to see hard evidence to support all the claims that are made...