Word: classical
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...selection means Harvard will lose its top gun for at least two non-conference games over the Christmas break. The Crimson will participate in the Maricuui Classic, a mini-tournament held Dec. 29-30 in Minneapolis, Minn...
...Massachusetts at Amherst, not to mention Smith College down the road in Northampton and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. How could a few citizens of this traditionally liberal enclave have made such a crushingly wrong decision, based on a fundamental misunderstanding, by canceling the free expression of a classic musical which still has a great deal to teach...
...classic Jiang moment--casual, charming, energizing. He is, after all, a man who can recite from memory sections of the Gettysburg Address--in English. His training as an engineer has given him a reverence for technology and a fluency with the idea of an information economy that make him an ideal leader for a Net-ready nation. And his instincts have always been behind Zhu's economic-reform program, despite opposition from conservative heavyweights in the party. Even today he relies on the advice of his American-educated son Jiang Mianheng...
Visudyne works only on wet macular degeneration, and produces the best results in patients whose retinal abnormalities occur mostly in what is known as the classic pattern. Doctors inject the drug into a vein in the patient's arm; from there it quickly spreads through the body. The drug concentrates wherever new blood vessels are being formed. But it doesn't start destroying those blood vessels until it is activated by pulses of light from a non-heat-generating laser. Since the light is shone into the eye, only the abnormal growths in the retina are targeted. Patients have...
MINITEL MINI-STROKE A French psychiatrist became temporarily blind in one eye and could barely speak--classic signs of a mini-stroke--after talking on the phone for an hour with the receiver tucked between his head and neck. Physicians believe the torqued position tore a neck artery that supplies blood to the brain. It's only one case, but the rest of us can learn from it. If you cradle the receiver, be sure to switch sides or transfer it to your hand from time to time. Better yet, try a headset...