Word: armfuls
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Students seeking safe sex may have come upon a new kind of barrier, in light of concern about the reliability of Harvard’s free Lifestyles condoms. But according to representatives the Community Health Initiative (CHI), a student-staffed arm of University Health Services (UHS) that provides the free condoms, there is no reason to stop using them. At the Female Orgasm Seminar that the Radcliffe Union of Students hosted last week, speaker Kim Airs, owner of the sexuality boutique “The Grand Opening,” warned against the use of Lifestyles condoms, saying that they...
...someone proposed injecting a computer chip in your arm and said it could save your life, would you do it? As Orwellian as it sounds, VeriChip is betting this will be a billion-dollar business. The firm's parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, won FDA approval last year for what it bills as the "world's first human implantable microchip." A radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip contains a 16-digit personal ID number that can be scanned like a bar code, providing health-care workers access to your medical records online...
...superficially damaged the department’s reputation, a closer look reveals that it is stronger and more sophisticated than ever. From the AAAS family’s increased focus on African Studies, to the opening of a newly unified Du Bois Institute (the department’s research arm), to the five recently-extended tenure offers to new professors, Gates is confident that he will finish his 15 years as Department Chair triumphantly...
...Fidelity brass is trying to figure out how to keep its lead position in the industry, given the competitive landscape. In a further sign of upheaval in the fund giant, last May, Abigail Johnson - daughter of the company's founder - stepped aside from running the money-management arm of Fidelity. She also recently sold some of her voting shares of the closely-held firm, signaling to some that she may no longer be the heir apparent...
...present, the HCC is an insular and self-preserving arm of the UC. The outgoing Chairman picks his or her successor upon vacating the office. Unimpressively, the most recent watershed reform to the HCC was the election of commission members by the UC. Under this system, no member of the HCC is even marginally accountable to the student body in any meaningful...