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Senior Week is our last barrier between college and the Real World, and it is probably the last time we will see the peers, professors and tutors who played such a critical role in our formative adult years all in one place. Whatever one might think of Harvard, our experiences here have shaped, or will indelibly shape, the course of our lives in the decades to come. Moonlight Cruise. Strawberry Tea. The Last Chance Dance. Their names evoke regret, nostalgia or visions of things past or never been. It is our last chance to remind our roommates how much they...
...Show, which was snapped up by Comedy Central after ABC passed on it, is sure to generate the most chatter, given its time slot following the channel's successful animated comedy South Park. Instead of words of wisdom from exotic dancers, here we get household hints from adult-film stars, girls jumping on trampolines, and hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla (the show's creators) drinking beer as they make fun of marriage, Oprah and movies starring Bette Midler--subjects lots of awful sitcoms already skewer, and for free...
...your children know there are medications to lessen their pain (nothing can make it go away completely) and that they need to let an adult know when it hurts so that the pain can be treated...
Ever since Dolly the sheep was famously cloned more than two years ago, scientists have been troubled by a nagging question: Will an infant animal that is a genetic photocopy of an adult live a full life, or will the advanced years of its "parent" make it older too? Last week the first answers arrived, and the news was not good. Some clones may indeed be growing old before their time, according to a study in the journal Nature...
...work. For example, says Gorman, there is a tendency for children to stay in the same general socioeconomic stratum as their parents. "There is also evidence," she says, "that environmental deficits in the womb and early in life" can seriously affect a person?s health later on. Thus poor adults, who may simply be the inheritors of a poor childhood, may exhibit a less healthy adult life cycle -- not because of lower-class stress but rather because they may have been exposed to more lead or more pollution, or obtained less medical attention, when they were children...