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...comparison, MIT offers a free basic health care program along with tuition, according to the MIT medical web site...
DIED. MARTIN D. KAMEN, 89, blacklisted physical biochemist who helped discover radioactive carbon 14, which was crucial to understanding basic chemical processes; in Santa Barbara, Calif. After being shunned by the scientific community amid rumors that he had leaked atom-bomb secrets to the Soviets, he won belated recognition in 1996, receiving the Enrico Fermi Award for lifetime achievement...
...women's counterpart, the Solheim Cup, are two of the only sporting events that feature a Team Europe. "But I guess as Europe does come together more and more, it's easier to play for it," says Fasth. The Europeans are driven by something much more basic. "It's pride," says Clarke. "We just want to win - for ourselves and for our teammates." "The biggest motivational factor is that we did not bring that gold baby back on the plane last time," Torrance says. "That's what hurts, not how it happened." There's no better place for Torrance...
More than 50 years ago, in the aftermath of World War II, the Harvard Faculty produced a masterpiece: General Education in a Free Society, the “Red Book” for short. The basic premise was that civilization had almost been extinguished, and it was a responsibility of American higher education to ensure that the students it was educating would not let the same thing happen again. The phrase “a free society” is brilliantly complex. It plainly refers to America, and the ideals of human freedom that are among America?...
...point going on like this," says Sofi. So he quit the alliance last month to run as an independent. "The Hurriyat is right that the elections don't address the core issue of Kashmir's status," admits Sofi. "But they are ignoring the people's condition, their basic day-to-day suffering." Adds Mohammed Shahbaz, 29, one of 15,000 people who cheered Sofi as he filed his candidacy: "We still want freedom from India. But we are changing our tactics. We want to throw out this corrupt local government. And we want to try being at the table with...