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...whole, too, the team has risen dramatically in the standings, placing either third or fourth in the EIWA in the past few years, and ranking among the top 30 teams in the nation...
Just as internecine conflicts have risen while interstate wars have declined, so subnational terror may increase as traditional nuclear threats wane. Monitoring and deterring states are hardly easy, but they pale in difficulty compared with the task of monitoring and deterring obscure and fleeting groups and individuals. Not everyone in our future will have a bomb, of course. If countries really want to, though, a lot of them will still be able to lay their hands on the stuff of nightmares...
...here, above 11,000 [the Dow closed at 10,609 last week], so I don't think it is predictive to say simply that if the Dow triples, it is going to crash. In the past 18 years, the Dow has risen by a factor of 14. What we're saying is that something profound is going...
...Dracula has risen again. About a dozen companies and academic research centers have been working without fanfare on devices that can replace all or part of a failing heart. Getting ever smaller and safer, partial hearts have quietly been keeping patients alive for several years now. And before the year is out, a Danvers, Mass., biotech company called Abiomed expects to achieve what Harvard surgeon Gus Vlahakes dubs the "big enchilada in heart disease"--a completely implantable grapefruit-size artificial heart...
...revivals, she asks, "why should we get all bent out of shape?" Addressing the ladies of Raleigh, she invokes John 20, where Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene at his tomb. "Jesus is telling Mary, a woman, to go tell his disciples, 11 men, her personal testimony with the risen Christ, and to give out his message," declaims Lotz. "When people have a problem with women in the ministry, they need to take it up with Jesus. He's the one who put us here...