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Student
offers cautionary tips to plastic-carrying peers
By
Hope Green
Each fall, as predictably as geese fly south, credit card marketers flock
to city sidewalks and peddle plastic to unwary college students. The sales
pitch, luring prospective customers with free T-shirts, Frisbees, and
phone cards just for signing up, can be irresistible. It's also inescapable:
credit card offers appear in everything from Internet pop-up ads to magazine
blow-in cards.
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The
sun also ices
The
Little Ice Age: how climate influenced
history, 1300-1850
By
Brian Fitzgerald
It was a refreshingly cool subject on an unseasonably warm day. On October
24, when the temperature hit 80 degrees, renowned archaeologist Brian
Fagan, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, talked
about chillier times: the Little Ice Age, a cold snap that lasted roughly
from a.d. 1300 until as recently as 1850.
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MED fosters family medicine program in Vietnam
By David
J. Craig
If someone from a poor, rural family being treated at one of Vietnam's
state-owned commune health centers is fortunate enough to see a doctor
rather than a midwife, a nurse, or a physician's assistant, that doctor
is likely to have received no postgraduate medical education or residency
training.
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Gold
World Medal
COM
prof cops top award for film on unique haven for the disabled
By Brian
Fitzgerald
Directing documentaries isn't exactly filmmaker Charles Merzbacher's cup
of tea. He is used to making dramatic and comedic films. For example,
his first feature, Jane Street, is a chaotic comedy about a man and two
attractive women squatting in a vacant Manhattan apartment.
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