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VITAMIN POWER Chalk up another victory for vitamin C. Researchers now think the versatile vitamin may help lower moderately elevated blood pressure. A small but well-controlled trial found that patients who take 500 mg of vitamin C daily for a month have a 9% drop in both systolic (upper) and diastolic (lower) readings. As for folks with normal blood pressure, the supplements don't alter a thing...
...university had been in a state of terror and tension since early November, when two rapes and an assault took place on campus, said senior Jared Brooslin, a spokesperson for the UMass-Amherst student government. Chalk slogans saying "Castrate Rapists" and "Walk in Pairs" appeared on sidewalks, and students looked over their shoulders when alone...
...stand on the street and look through the ground floor windows of Quincy, you can see a wild thing and a little boy dancing to the moon. Last year, Dan B. Baer '00 sketched the first chalk lines of this "Where The Wild Things Are" Mural because "when we moved in to the suite, the word 'DEATH' was scrawled across the wall in gray paint." He painted in his chalk lines to cover the entire wall of Quincy B-11 with Max and a monster arching their backs to the sky. The book was Baer's childhood favorite...
...eyes on the peak. Alex, Conrad and I were the first who had gone to the trouble to climb it, and the view from the top was ample reward. Countless other rock towers, equally strange and beautiful, rise from the ice in all directions, resembling gargantuan sailboats plying a chalk-white...
...chalk some of this up to the Baby-Sitter Problem. Think about it. What kind of maladjusted, alienated, socially phobic loser would be available to baby-sit on the millennial New Year's Eve? Would you leave your kids with a misanthropic freak who can't scrounge up a date or a party invite on the biggest New Year's Eve of all time...