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...then there are some hook-ups that even the slickest sleuths should avoid at all costs. “Dormcest” is always a bad idea. If things go sour, your 4 a.m. vending machine visits will always be wrought with the fear of bumping into your ex-lover buying Diet Coke for a new honey, or using the basement dryers for something other than drying clothes. Plus, dorms are mini-Harvards—word gets around pretty fast, and nobody wants to be the year’s “Holworthy Ho?...
...Another situation to avoid entirely is hooking up with the roommates of past flings. Although Harvard hotties tend to travel, and thus live, in packs, it is best to choose one and stick with him or her. A drunken trip to the bathroom might result in the return to a familiar, but wrong, bed. And of course, don’t hook up with your own roommate either—that should be self-explanatory...
Health officials are struggling to educate women who have had an abortion about avoiding additional unwanted pregnancies. "People in the family planning and abortion community are trying to deal with this head on," Jones says. "We have an obligation to women who are experiencing multiple unintended pregnancies to do what we can to help them avoid subsequent unintended pregnancies...
...eternal return. The bailout package sent to Congress envisages the purchase of toxic mortgage-related assets from banks by a government agency directly dependent on the Treasury. It has a direct precedent in the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), an institution created during the Savings and Loans crisis to avoid dumping real estate assets after bank failures, and thus to avoid a further decline in real estate prices through the usage of federal funds. The current proposal is explicit about its monumental cost: $700 billion, a sum larger than the 2009 budget of Medicare and Medicaid, which also dwarfs...
...room. She was careful not to look at Viscount Frederick, as he slumped there on the pillows next to his wife. But she couldn’t help but wonder why Frederick, so studious, so sagacious, had chosen to marry a high-strung London beauty like Felicity.To avoid these musings, Roxanna shook her head, setting her buttercup curls a-bouncing. Why worry about anything on such a beautiful day, she told herself. She was in Florence! “Fi-ren-ze,” she exclaimed rapturously, unconscious of the adorable pout of her rosebud lips as she mouthed...