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Moreover, Rapp says, applications for the IOP's Washington internship program--which last year featured positions at C-SPAN and at the Commerce Department and which awards students grants of $2,500--are not due until near Spring Break...
...election who voted against the Republican welfare reform legislation. And he didn't do it quietly. The former Carleton College professor got up on the Senate floor in a tirade, shaming his colleagues and promising those in the chamber (and political junkies like me watching on C-SPAN) that re-elected or not, he would travel to the most depressed neighborhoods around the country to focus media attention on the needs of the poor...
...that was as far as Cornell (7-5, 0-2) would get, as Harvard held its opponent to just one field goal and four free throws over the next 8:30 of play. Over the same span, four different Crimson players scored, pushing the lead out to 13. All of Harvard's starters scored in double figures...
...times in the second half, it looked as though Dartmouth might be able to catch up to Harvard. The Big Green's Kenny Mitchell hit two three-pointers within a 1:19 span, cutting the Harvard lead from 11 to seven, but after Grancio hit a jumper neither team scored for almost five minutes. Then, with 48 seconds left, a Mitchell shot cut the lead to six, but Scott and sophomore point guard Tim Hill hit all of their ensuing free throws to ice the game...
...intrigued by your report on research into staying youthful and the possibilities of a vastly expanded life-span [MEDICINE, Nov. 25], but I can see a day coming when, if methods for preserving youth do become practical, they will be the exclusive domain of the megarich and powerful. A few lucky people will be given a chance to live more than one century, but the rest of us will experience, I fear, little or no benefit. I'd love to be proved wrong, but "health equals wealth" certainly seems to be the trend in America just now. DARRELL LELAND Albuquerque...