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Boston’s Spring Fashion Weekend kicks off on Thursday, May 3rd and runs through May 6th. Part educational tool, part business venture and part fun, Fashion Weekend brings together consumers, designers, buyers and store owners in an attempt to alert everyone involved to the hottest fashions for the fall and to help set up a network to continue the promotion of fashion in Boston...
...many Houses do. This e-mail, however, strikes me as more akin to a personal position statement, making use of resources not available to the other side of the living wage debate in an attempt to sway student opinion. That seems less like a Harvard University Police Department alert and more like Rudenstine sending us his endorsements for local congressional races, informing us of a special deal on Franklin Mint commemorative plates, or helping us to get rich quick. That our president decided to make his side of the living wage debate his first missive to all undergraduates concerns...
...years of solid growth followed by a one-year recession. Amazingly, the current economy had been chugging along for 10 years with little evidence of tiring. In March 2000 the expansion officially earned the distinction as the longest in U.S. history. That in itself should have kept us on alert...
...ORAL ALERT The same nasty human papillomavirus that scientists know causes cervical cancer may be linked to even more types of malignancies. Norwegian scientists report the best evidence yet that HPV-16, a strain of the virus, doubles the risk of larynx, pharynx and tonsil cancers. The explanation is not so farfetched: HPV-16 can transform normal cells in the mucous membranes--like those lining both the cervix and oral cavity--into cancerous squamous cells. How does HPV get to the mouth in the first place? The most likely pathway is oral...
...Chinese word for crisis, sinologists like to say, combines the characters for danger and opportunity. Despite the risks to U.S.-China relations, a small group of China specialists in Washington views the spy-plane incident as the best chance yet to alert the Establishment to Beijing's growing strategic threat to the U.S. "This basically puts a stake through the heart of appeasement," says Edward Timperlake, a former Marine fighter pilot and an author who worked in the Reagan Administration...