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ROTC provides Harvard students with tuition, fees, uniforms and a percentage of their book costs. In return, students commit to year-round training sessions and four years of military service after graduation...
...vanguard is Kevorkian, a retired Michigan pathologist who appeared on every television talk show and news program in the country last year in the 24 hours after he helped Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins commit suicide. He hooked her up to a homemade contraption that allowed her to push a button and send lethal potassium chloride into her veins. A Michigan judge chose not to prosecute Kevorkian for murder, since the state has no laws against assisted suicide, but forbade him to use the machine again. By last week, Dr. Death had found a way around that injunction...
...happily successful and also be arrogant at times? And studies show that most married people commit adultery...
...might ask the Bush Administration. The U.S. is resisting pressure from the European Community and Japan to use the Rio conference as a forum to set targets and timetables for the reduction of warming gases, among other things. It has also resisted pressure to commit new funds so that developing economies can grow without destroying precious ecosystems. Washington's posture stands in contrast to the leadership the U.S. exercised in 1972 at the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, which first established the environment as an area of international cooperation. Now, says James Gustave Speth, president...
...very high; as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis noted in one ruling, the laws on sexual harassment "do not mandate an employment environment worthy of a Victorian salon." When women were asked why they had never taken formal action, the answer was stunningly consistent: Why commit professional suicide...