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...people at Harvard bear any grudge against the Department of Defense per se, says Meltzer, who sits on the student-faculty committee on ROTC. Otherwise, the University might be obliged to reconsider the hundreds of thousands of dollars in Department of Defense grants and fellowships it receives each year...
Epps, who was not fully aware of the stress coming to bear on Harvard's multicultural community, realized then that he was out of touch with an area of student life that he closely supervised only ten years...
...problem in question is cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular beating of the heart that can be deadly. Some cardiac arrhythmias bear the telltale signs of chaos. By delivering a series of precisely timed electrical pulses, four scientists at UCLA, the College of Wooster in Ohio and the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland theorized that they might be able to tame unruly hearts...
Even as they denounced the violence, Bonn officials used the occasion to urge once more the adoption of a constitutional amendment that would curtail Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. Germany continues to bear the brunt of Europe's population upheaval, taking in 256,000 asylum seekers last year -- a number that may double this year. But Kohl's Christian Democrats could soon get their wish. Leaders of the rival Social Democrats, whose support is essential for such an amendment, coincidentally abandoned their opposition only hours before the Rostock riots began...
...used to be that most children with Down syndrome, the genetic abnormality that leads to physical deformity and mental retardation, were born to women age 35 and older. For that reason, many older expectant mothers now have amniocentesis to see whether the baby's genes bear the telltale defects associated with the ailment. The result is that fully 80% of victims today -- in the U.S. at least -- are born to mothers 35 and younger. These women tend to avoid amniocentesis because for them the risk of bearing kids with Down syndrome is significantly lower than the risk from the testing...