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...larger sense, essential for your education.” Emphasizing the importance of non-academic life at Harvard, Lewis sent a memo to the heads of the upcoming curricular review in February, attacking the view that making Harvard better required making its academics more rigorous. Older alumni, he argues, tend to remember their friends and extracurricular mentors more than their course work...
...this war, the mighty but merciful allies target bombs carefully and tend to the enemy's wounded. In that war, the allies blow up women and babies. In this war, Iraq is postponing certain defeat by cheating, killing civilians and using human shields. In that war, a weak nation is steadfastly defending itself using the only effective means available. This war, on American television, is alternately "the war in Iraq" or "Operation Iraqi Freedom." That war, broadcast by the media of the Arab and Muslim worlds, is "the invasion...
...short--have soared in popularity since the hostilities began. Their chief attraction is that they offer perspectives overlooked in most U.S. news reports--from war photos too grisly to print to viewpoints too far outside the political mainstream. And because their diary-like formats are so informal, they tend to invite reader participation, discussion and fiery debate...
...Many viral outbreaks tend to burn out, as a population naturally develops immunity to the particular pathogens. But a virus can also be devastating, as was in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-19 (see viewpoint). Although that flu's mortality rate was only 2%, the virus had infected so many people that it felled 40 million victims in 18 months?more than the total death toll from combat in World War I. So far, SARS' fatality rate is 4%, comparable to normal, noncontagious pneumonia's. Optimists point out that in the three weeks that SARS has gripped Hong Kong...
...most at risk? Children and adults of all ages, regardless of health, have been infected. As with most respiratory infections, the very old and patients with pre-existing conditions tend to suffer the most...