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...despite fears that randomized housing assignments would cause the inter-House transfer rate to balloon, the number of transfer applications has remained relatively steady...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Strict Rules, Students Stay Put | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...sometimes (albeit rarely) prove fatal--or cause such intolerable side effects that it has to be halted. Now scientists have developed a simple and, alas, still experimental test that can predict just how well a patient will handle cancer drugs. Patients have their breath analyzed (by blowing into a balloon) soon after they are injected with a tiny dose of a drug that releases carbon particles while it's being broken down by the liver. Very little carbon suggests the body will be slow to metabolize cancer drugs--and that a less toxic dose may be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: May 8, 2000 | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

VICTORIOUS VENOM More than half a million patients each year have their clogged arteries Roto-Rootered with balloon angioplasty. Now researchers report that a new clot-busting drug, Integrilin, derived from--hiss!--snake venom, can cut the risk of death and heart attack 40% during the first 48 hours after angioplasty. Integrilin, like its top rival ReoPro, belongs to the "superaspirin" class of drugs. There's at least one difference: ReoPro costs $1,500; Integrilin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Heart News | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

Harvard Square is busting at the seams with street vendors--trinkets, Mexican pullover sweaters and balloon animals are proffered up and down Mass. Ave. and in every corner of the T Station. Most vendors, however, are selling pretty much the same product: Spare Change. The biweekly newspaper, is written, produced and sold in large part by a group of homeless and formerly homeless people looking for a way to get back on their feet...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Brother. Can You Spare a Dime? | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...some level, her art seems more dependent on the play of language than visual ingenuity. A number of her found objects make this particularly clear, such as Breath of a Librarian, a deflated black balloon found in the reading room of the British Library. Works like this might lead us to wonder whether collector, rather than sculptor, might be a better description for Parker...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blow Up: Hypnotist-Collector Cornelia Parker Comes to America | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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