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...sexually maladjusted? (I realize I may simply be projecting my neurosis onto all Harvard students. If that is the case, I apologize.) Is it because Harvard students are too career-oriented and business-minded, performing a cost/benefit analysis before deciding to hook up? Are meaningless, casual encounters so common because we’ve internalized a post-modern sexual ethos where the author’s intentions are irrelevant, leaving us with nothing...
...brighter note, casual contact with AIDS victims, even over long periods of time, seems relatively safe. Newark Pediatrician James Oleske studied the foster families of nine newborns infected with AIDS and found that none of the foster mothers or siblings showed any signs of infection. Other research presented in Atlanta offered an intriguing clue to the mystery of how AIDS began. Dr. Myron Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health believes that the virus may have originated in a species known as the African green monkey and spread to humans only in recent decades. Essex has found that about...
...summer of 1945 may have been the last time in his life that Nixon had the luxury of paying casual attention to the Bomb. Nuclear weapons were to color politics from that time on, and Nixon's political career was to extend from Congress in 1947, to the Senate in 1951, to the vice presidency under Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, to the presidency in 1969 and again in 1973. His view of Hiroshima is that the bombing not only brought nuclear weapons into international diplomacy but that it brought America into the world. What he saw in Hiroshima...
Indeed, the absence of both sides’ top-line starters, usually held in reserve for the weekends, was easily lost on the casual observer. Both staffs combined to strike out 10, and neither the Crimson nor the Crusaders (6-9) allowed more than nine hits during the extra-inning affair...
...talking again. “I’m actually not sure why he hasn’t called me yet,” she said in a falsely casual voice...