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...drinking. But Kozmo countered with a set of proposals to minimize the risk that alcohol would be sold to underage students. These proposals, when applied to Harvard students, would include carding students who pick up the deliveries, banning deliveries to first-year housing, restricting hours and possibly days when beer could be delivered and setting a limit on the amount of alcohol which could be delivered in a given time period. These are reasonable concessions and would have done much to address the University's concerns about alcohol delivery...
...recruits about $50,000 a year--mere beer money to many of the top science grads, who are courted with six-figure salaries and stock options by Internet start-ups and established tech firms. But the agency carries a certain cachet among some lab dwellers. "I'm interested in the challenge, the exciting lifestyle," says Alan, 30, a postdoctoral student of biomedicine at M.I.T. (He and others asked that their last names not be used.) The dotcoms are too volatile, he says, and too many big companies are "on cruise control." Quentin, 20, a junior student of electrical engineering, says...
...woman meet for a beer, a blind date set up by friends. There are some first-meeting jitters: her jokes go past him; he pushes a little too hard. Still, they make a dinner date. There the conversation is more strained, and the woman ends the evening abruptly. She's too wrapped up in her job, she lies, to have a relationship. I'm sorry, but goodbye...
...like to live in a world without the possibility of further revelations as profound as evolution or quantum mechanics? Not everyone finds this prospect disturbing. The science editor of the Economist once pointed out to me that if science does end, we will still have sex and beer. Maybe that's the right attitude, but there aren't any Nobels in it. No matter how far science does or doesn't advance, however, there's one wild card in even the most pessimistic scenario. If we encounter extraterrestrial life--and especially life intelligent enough to have developed its own science...
...This aside creates a false impression though, since conversation was flying about me at lightning pace, fueled by scotch and beer, the manly drinks of choice. Looking to my left again, my attention was suddenly called to my right...