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...other U.S. schools in the top 10 were Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, and University of California, Berkeley. Cambridge and Oxford were ranked second and third respectively, each moving up one position from last year’s report. The 200 schools in the THES ranking were spread among 30 countries around the world. The highest ranked school outside of the U.S. and the United Kingdom was China’s Beijing University, which came in at 14th...
...avoid panicking, remind her (and yourself) that help is on the way. Keep her thoughts positive by asking about baby names; hide the look of horror on your face when she says “Cougar.” Keep the birthing area as clean as possible. Ideally, spread out an ROTC sweatshirt, but, should one be unavailable, pages ripped from your never-cracked Ec 10 textbook will suffice. Do not let the laboring mother eat or drink, tempting though it may be to pass around a flask to keep everyone calm. All the more for you this way. Encourage...
...were a number of unkempt bearded oracles. We had seen several of these shamans outside of 7-11 before, jingling their mystic wisdom goblets, but had never mustered the courage to speak with them. And oh, what we were missing. Those priests of illusion have much wisdom butter to spread. One of them is writing a historical novel about a love triangle in the Courts of Vienna...entirely in his head! And another has risen from poverty to be one Boston’s premier adult party planners, throwing themed sleeping-bag galas under the Coop seven decadent nights...
Many dreamers ask for family trips so their loved ones can remember happy times together. Dee Appel, 61, had worked with Making Memories in Portland, Ore., for two years when she learned her breast cancer had returned and spread to her liver. During a local TV appearance in which Appel planned to promote a fund raiser, her colleagues surprised her by awarding her wish for a "grammy camp" in Colorado with her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. Appel invited the kids' other grandmother, who had lung cancer, to come along. The grandkids and their two grandmas--both "bald...
...Persistent Pathogen Last month's spate of infections from E. coli bacteria traced to prepackaged spinach harvested in California was only the latest outbreak of exposure to the dangerous microbe. TIME's Aug. 3, 1998, cover story concerned an epidemic that spread when E. coli contaminated the water in Alpine, Wyoming...