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...possible they just didn't know. Small things we take for granted can be enormous problems in the absence of a little knowledge. Take cholera. My gastrointestinal colleagues tell me that although it will make you sick and miserable for a couple of weeks, cholera won't kill you if you simply drink enough water and salt to combat the dehydrating effects of its severe diarrhea. But millions have died from it just because they didn't know. Or how many horrible, slow deaths have there been from scurvy, which a bite of green pepper would have cured? How many...
...theater,” he says. “You find a problem—like we need the audience to feel this, or the actors need to be able to go from here to there really fast, or a tree to come flying on stage and not kill anyone,” he says. “It let me think a lot about the details and solve problems that go on a scale outside of tiny electronics.”Next year, Ur will apply his technical knowledge on an even bigger scale: the real world.He...
This discrimination is based primarily on the ability to judge people based on their minority status. When white terrorists like Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kaczynski kill innocent people, it’s ridiculous to think that their ethnicity had anything to do with the despicable acts. But when the perpetrators are minorities or worse yet, foreigners, ethnicity suddenly becomes a much bigger deal...
...though, Unger was never able to find his groove.Dartmouth freshman phenom Nick Santomauro came up next and hit a double to right field past a diving Tom Stack-Babich, moving Wright to third.Big Green third baseman Raymond Allen followed with a two-run single. Harvard had a chance to kill the Dartmouth rally on the next play, when Andrew Nacario grounded to Crimson junior Steffan Wilson at third. But the ball slipped under Wilson’s glove, rolling into left field and continuing the inning. “That was an out there,” Walsh said...
...Olmert's key rivals, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, are both former prime ministers whose track record in office failed to persuade voters to reelect them. Both men have so far refrained from moving in for the kill, lest they seem overzealous of taking advantage of what was a national calamity. Or perhaps they sense that Olmert has been mortally wounded, and will be unable to survive the Winograd judgment regardless of his own intentions. Not only have his approval ratings crashed to around 2 percent, but he is also under official investigation over allegations of financial misdoings - although these...