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...first half, we played like we should," Burg said. "I think the problem in the second half is mental. It's hard to maintain focus for the whole game, and are goal must be to play for a full 60 minutes...
...hard hit has been Rwanda's medical establishment, which is grappling with some of the most pressing public-health issues on the planet. At least 11% of the population is HIV positive. Malaria, cholera and other diseases are rampant and periodically spike to epidemic levels. Malnutrition is a chronic problem here as in much of Africa, with 10% of the children afflicted. And infant mortality rates at 125 deaths per 1,000 births are at double the world average. For such doctors as Emmanuel d'Harcourt, 34, a program manager for the International Rescue Committee, that means having to build...
...then there's the problem of getting Microsoft to obey the new rules. "Conduct remedies require some degree of cooperation and good faith--or a very significant enforcement apparatus," says Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Microsoft's critics complain that the company doesn't act in good faith: they point out that this case was filed in the first place when Justice determined Microsoft had violated a 1995 consent agreement. Enforcement mechanisms have their own problems. Almost nobody--inside Microsoft or out of it--wants the Federal Government overseeing Microsoft's business decisions and product designs...
...makes perfect sense to be the first person to sell in a rout, when everybody comes to that conclusion, everybody loses. The vampire-blood exchange, described by biologist Gerald Wilkinson in 1983, caught the attention of economists because it represents a natural occurrence of the optimal solution to a problem called "the Prisoner's Dilemma" that has bedeviled game theorists for decades...
Women in the military? No problem with that [NATION, March 27]. Women as commanders? No problem with that either. Building a ship to accommodate gender equity? Makes sense. Extra ventilation "due to hair spray," along with extra outlets and mirrors "for hair and makeup"? Silly. WILL MARBLE Decatur...