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...humor magazine for the few who can fit in the cookie-cutter shape of the publication’s officer core. But for the majority of Harvardians without access to these institutions, a new forum has provided an unexpected space to unleash their suppressed desires: Lamont Library. With the advent of the library’s 24-hour schedule, Lamont has become—especially during the doldrums of reading and exam periods—a place of revelry more than a place of study. The signs were apparent from the beginning. As the clock struck midnight on October...
...dismayed that the FDA would refuse to use every means possible to give blood to those who need it. With summer blood shortages just ahead, we instead hope that the FDA will consider public welfare more important than the financial costs incurred in unbarring homosexuals from donation. The advent of universal HIV/AIDS testing has continued the vital dissociation of HIV/AIDS from homosexual behavior. Let’s continue in making this divorce permanent by kicking the permanent ban on gay blood donations...
...swing-wing fighter ... It is work that occupies tens of thousands of mathematicians and cryptographers, clerks and military analysts, often with the most trivial-seeming tasks. Yet it is work that no major nation feels it can afford to halt ... In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold war. In 1929, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was shocked to learn that the State Department had a cryptographic bureau. He fired the founder of the code-breaking agency, observing: "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." But since then, the U.S. has overcome these...
...Acapulco? You sound a bit salty...” Research. Next question. Now that we’re back, the mythical Senior Bar season (Senior Bar every Sunday through Thursday!) is upon us. This is for Harvard students what one of those chocolate Advent calendars is for a four-year-old child. Every day, you get to open up a new window and have a little piece of chocolate, which is vaguely satisfying but mostly it just tickles your pickle for more chocolate. Sometimes you just lose it and eat like 5 pieces of chocolate at once, and then...
...pattern of evolution suggests the ant family tree began to split with the advent of flowering plants, 100 million years ago, as ants adapted to newly-emergent environments...