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...before going their separate ways, seniors are cherishing their last two weeks together as carefree college students without the burden of studies or work. After four years, the seemingly neverending rush of classes, jobs, extracurriculars and applications that is Harvard life is finally over, leaving seniors precious little time, in between class events like the Booze Cruise and the Last Chance Dance, to take...
...recent federal study on children in day care has added to our guilty burden, purporting to show a link between day care and aggression in kids in kindergarten. But beyond the headlines, researchers have pointed out that the rise in aggression is actually quite small, that it seems to peak and recede depending on the age of the child, and that the possible reasons for the day care-aggression link are as yet unstudied...
...course, things are different on the Net. First of all, almost all relationships are between strangers, especially those between merchants and customers. Should a seller have to ask what he can do with the transaction data each time a sale is made? That's a big burden for both parties. Moreover, many merchants would prefer not to delve too deeply into all of this. They would rather just assume that their information-collection methods are O.K. and use the data as they see fit. They argue that everything would be more expensive if they couldn't use marketing information effectively...
...meant for: to manage lots of information, including details as to how consumers want their data used. True, many users, if you were to ask them to actively consent to the use of their data, simply wouldn't bother. The process of making an explicit choice is a burden for customers as well as for merchants...
...draft came to Harvard in 1951, regularly making the front page of The Crimson. The senior class escaped largely unscathed--though six of its members would be killed in the Korean War--and the draft burden would fall on future classes...