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...people want to have sex in the Lamont Café. (Or at least are willing to claim that they do.) If even a quarter of the solicitations made on boredatlamont.com ever came to fruition, Lamont would devolve into an orgy that would make the most progressive libertine blush...
...charity to support, Jarmoska felt overwhelmed. Numerous organizations sponsored walks, runs and bike trips. Even more were pitching pink-ribbon products and promotions with a promise that a portion of sales would support a breast-cancer cause. Jarmoska was stunned by the profusion of pink cosmetics, jewelry, teddy bears, blush wines, blenders, candles and paper products. "I realized breast cancer had become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns," she says. "With so many companies involved, my suspicion was that the motive was not always entirely pure...
That is why counselors are saluting the caution being shown in Natascha Kampusch's case. At first blush, it seems counterintuitive: after eight years of wrenching separation, she hasn't returned home to either of her parents (who divorced before the abduction). Instead, she has been living at Vienna General Hospital, where she is likely to stay for at least another month in the care of a cadre of social workers and psychologists. She has arranged brief, if frequent, visits with her mother but in the first week saw her father only once...
...must take at least two foundational courses—a good starting point for anyone looking into this concentration. WGS 1003, “Theories of Sexuality” is usually the most popular of the intro classes, even if some of the more modest students at Harvard might blush over the title. The reading includes works from Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler. The class also features numerous film screenings. Perhaps the most popular WGS class from last year was WGS 1151, “Sex, Rights, and Stereotypes: Queer Culture In America From Stone Wall...
...astrophysicists their first real glimpse into a crucial and mysterious era in the evolution of the cosmos. Known as the Dark Ages of the universe, it's the 200 million-year period (more or less) after the last flash of light from the Big Bang faded and the first blush of sun-like stars began to appear. What happened during the Dark Ages set the stage for the cosmos we see today, with its billions of magnificent galaxies and everything that they contain--the shimmering gas clouds, the fiery stars, the tiny planets, the mammoth black holes...