Word: classness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late-night study sessions are a staple of Harvard life. Overcommitted students spend their daylight hours scrambling from class to section to extracurricular activities, stumbling back home only to be confronted with piles of problem sets, papers and pain. All of this makes us hungry...
...deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Richard C. Marius (News, Nov. 8). I was his student in two classes (and otherwise, in more ways than I can count), but I am lucky to have met him at all. When I arrived to shop his seminar on Shakespeare's history plays, the room was bursting with senior English concentrators. Thinking that I would never get a seat in the class, I almost left. When Marius arrived, he asked, mixing drawl with happy surprise, "Are you all here to study Shakespeare...
...summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I enrolled in a program at Stanford and took a class in American Government. But instead of a comprehensive course about the intricacies of our nation's bureaucracy, which was meant to gear me up for the A.P. exam, I spent three hours each morning listening to the ranting and raving of a liberal hippie from Florida. He wanted us to call him Bob. He swore by his Birkenstocks. And he thought anyone who wanted to run for the President of the United States was crazy...
Also close to reality are the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively nontoxic compounds that inhibit the growth of new capillaries. The idea behind this new class of drugs is that tumors cannot grow bigger than a few hundred thousand cells--about the size of a peppercorn--without growing their own blood-supply system. Researchers and patients, not to mention the owners of stock in half a dozen biotech companies, are eagerly awaiting results of clinical trials of antiangiogenic factors, which might be used in combination with chemotherapy to knock down big tumors and then prevent any surviving tumors from growing...
...signs of the future. Cassandras reply that Malthus was right, but techno-fixes have postponed the day of reckoning. There are now 6 billion people on Earth. The Pollyannas say the more the merrier; the Cassandras say that is already twice as many as can be supported in middle-class comfort, and the world is running out of arable land and fresh water. Despite a recent slowdown in the growth rate, the U.N. Population Division expects the world population to reach 9.5 billion by the year...