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...locations on campus. UHS makes condoms available in the Center for Wellness and Health Communication Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Peer Contraceptive Counselors, on the 5th floor of UHS, is open Sunday through Thursday, 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Room 13, in Grays Hall west basement, also has condoms and is open every night from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Contact, in Thayer Hall basement, is open Thursday through Saturday...
There the procrastinator will hopefully discover a significant productivity boost as a result of the new location. Oh, sure, the first floor is intimidating--study groups convene quietly, people sleep in armchairs. But descending down to the basement, the procrastinator just might find an ideal study environment--one where possible distraction is strictly minimal...
...Cabot's basement is not exactly the most aesthetically pleasing study venue that Harvard has to offer, which is exactly why it fits the needs of the procrastinator. No fun and exciting decorations to look at. Visual distraction is eliminated by mini- malism. Avoid the comfy couches and chairs near the basement entrance: if any procrastinator sits here, she becomes the basement's welcoming committee for any and all remote acquaintances. In addition, these comfortable furnishings are more conductive to sleep than study...
...April 1913 the body of Mary Phagan, 13, strangled to death, was found in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. Leo Frank, the factory's manager, was arrested for the crime and, despite his protestations of innocence, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later, after his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment by the Governor of Georgia, Frank was taken from his prison cell by persons unknown and lynched. Because Frank was Jewish, his case became a nationwide cause celebre for Jewish groups and political figures crusading against anti-Semitism...
Many, perhaps most, U.S. executives would still give that response. In their mind, the risks of investing in Asian economies that are still struggling to recover from a region-wide financial collapse far outweigh the bargain-basement prices now available. The deep recession in much of Asia looks likely to last through at least another year, then give way only to a very gradual recovery. That's at best; at worst, the recessionary cycle might still take one or more additional downward twists...