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Having a monthly period is a drag--and now, thanks to a new birth-control pill called Seasonale, it's unnecessary. Approved last Friday by the FDA, the pill contains the same ingredients found in the original Pill but works on a 91-day cycle instead of the traditional 28. Women take active pills 84 days in a row, then placebos for the final week, reducing the number of periods from 13 a year to just four...
Though Seasonale is new, the idea behind it is not. Doctors have sometimes prescribed continuous birth control to suppress menstruation, whether for lifestyle reasons (before a beach vacation, say) or to avoid migraine headaches. One caveat: test subjects using Seasonale experienced nearly two weeks of bleeding during their first cycle. The spotting, however, diminished over time...
...open to women. Every group except the Final Clubs eventually accepted that principle, and in the course of that transition Harvard became, in a very few years, a fully coeducational College. Recognizing the special situation of women students in the still lopsided Harvard world, Archie was instrumental in the birth of the Women’s Leadership Project, still today one of the most vigorous groups dedicated to advancing women’s issues. To an extent that is rarely noted, Archie should be given credit for the equalization of the status of men and women at Harvard...
...process, try to keep in mind what this place has seen, for it has witnessed both great victory and tragic loss. Harvard was here during the birth of this nation, nursed many of its founding fathers, then sacrificed some of its sons to their cause. Harvard was here during what could have been this nation’s death throes, helped restore America’s vitality, and saw its sons die on battlefields across the Union. Harvard was here during this nation’s finest hour, when freedom held tyranny in check, and mourned a shattering number...
...have been imitating the Costes' haute-design blueprint to the point where it risks turning into a new café cliché. How much does the Costes formula bring in? As a patchwork of private companies - or "an informal network whose members have been tied to one another since birth," as Gilbert, 54, puts it - they're not required to say. Pressed, Gilbert figures the whole collection throws off some j100 million a year, although that's probably low. Profits? Up to 20% on the restaurants, perhaps 35% on the hotel rooms...