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Varela is just one of the legions of Harvard students, mostly men, who wear baseball caps. While many of those students say they wear caps because of hair mishaps, other cite a variety of reasons for their added apparel...
...your brain because nobody has thoroughly studied them. To ease fears, Motorola held a press conference last week and claimed that "thousands of studies" had proved their cellular telephones safe. But when asked to name three studies that showed the phones do not cause tumors, a company spokesman could cite only one 10-year-old report and two others with ambiguous results. "If that's the best they can do, they're in deep trouble," said Louis Slesin, publisher of Microwave News, a newsletter that has devoted extensive coverage to the risks of electromagnetic radiation...
...there are problems with all of this. The youth vote, as it is often discussed, is an illusion. Reagan and Bush did neglect young people, but only in the sense that they neglected most ordinary people. Many pollsters cite evidence that "youth issues" like the economy, the environment, national service and education don't interest twentysomethings any more than those a decade or two older...
Advocates of generational identity cite certain shared characteristics of those born under Nixon, raised in bellbottoms and educated in the Reagan era: ironic, media-savvy, skeptical and technologically advanced. But Star from The New Republic theorizes that the entire twentysomething generation is a myth, a contrivance of various corporate interests and a product of flawed anecdotal evidence...
...Aristide's return. Many of those who are building boats to flee say they will stay home if he comes back, as he urged them in a special Creole broadcast on Voice of America. "The people will not leave now," said a Haitian man in the slum of Cite Boston. "We are waiting for him -- for Aristide." While conceding that he was not the perfect President, Haitians like the priest in the town of Jeremite say "restoring Aristide to power is restoring the democratic process." The exiled President, however, has been less popular in Washington, where Bush officials thought...