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...green may finally have risen to the top. Buying the argument that the move would give the U.S. more clout in debates with environmental ministers from other countries, the Senate voted to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet level. The measure was sent to the House, where it died last year because of objections to a Republican amendment requiring government compensation to property owners affected by environmental restrictions. This year the controversial amendment was dropped, improving the odds significantly, though it's still not a sure shot...
Harvard's sangfroid shouldn't be that surprising. This is a team that has carried heavy expectations since the beginning of the season and that has risen to almost every challenge facing...
Colin Powell, a man who has risen from poverty to become America's most prominent military officer and a major actor in international affairs, might seem an ideal choice for Harvard's Commencement speaker. Yet among the radical fringe which dominates campus discussion at Harvard, the prospect of having to listen to a political moderate at Commencement is apparently too daunting even to contemplate...
Scientists at Harvard and elsewhere have gained some insight into the mechanism of the disease, but while the five-year survival rate of women with breast cancer has risen from 78 percent in the 1940s to 93 percent today, the disease still baffles scientists who attempt to explain its origins, and a cure remains a distant goal...
...issues of race came to the forefront in the 1960s, "I think issues of sexuality [have risen] in the...late '80s and '90s," he said...