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...meter race. The next two racers for the Crimson came in within a minute and a half of each other—and at most, two minutes behind Helbling—were freshman Jessica Setlesss (20:36) in 97th place and junior Tiffany Abramson (22:07) in 103rd. The next meet, in which the full squads will compete, comes this weekend at the Heptagonal Championships. The meet is the defacto Ivy League championship and will be raced at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...some scholars disagree about the need to present porn in class. In Sex and the Law, a senior seminar given by Paul Abramson, a psychology professor at UCLA, the screening of Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the making of the notorious '70s porno film, is optional. Porn is "so pervasive in our culture, most students have already seen it," Abramson explains. Showing it "seems unnecessary." Likewise, Catherine Sherwood-Puzello, who covers pornography in her human-sexuality class at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, the home of sex pioneer Alfred Kinsey's institute, displays Michelangelo's David and Playboy...
...surprisingly, given those results, a growing number of corporations?including Deutsche Bank, Google and Hughes Aircraft?offer meditation classes to their workers. Jeffrey Abramson, CEO of Tower Co., a Washington-based development firm, says 75% of his staff attend free classes in transcendental meditation. Making employees sharper is only one benefit; studies say meditation also improves productivity, in large part by preventing stress-related illness and reducing absenteeism...
...have been increasing, the number of flu deaths decreased by 30 percent, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Nowak, however, maintains that this increase in population accounts was one of the reasons for the 2003 increase. John Abramson, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Medical School who provided some guidance throughout Doshi’s research, said the “public information about influenza is driving people towards remedies [like flu vaccines] that may not be very effective.” David S. Rosenthal, director of University Health Services, said that...
...than 75,000 were invited to attend the seminar. The conference featured one open briefing session, titled “Developing Public and Private Partnerships,” which was held last Friday at the Taubman Center. The session was led by Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston, Mayor Jerry Abramson of Louisville Metro, Ky., and Heather Campion, the group executive vice president for corporate affairs at Citizens Bank. Both Menino and Abramson stressed that business communities are eager to provide resources to benefit local communities, because it ultimately helps their business grow and assures future employees. “Ninety...