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...News observers have noted the round-the-clock TV coverage given over to one of the media?s favorite stock victims, the missing white woman. In that context, I almost welcome the constant updates from Durham. It not only brings a bit of parity to how we cover alleged victims of different races, it has also, obviously, spurred conversations about race, class and sex issues that may lay dormant but have never been fully resolved...
Then there is the Internet. Girls have traditionally practiced not so much physical aggression as relational aggression--battles of cutting words, frosty looks and exclusion from cliques. E-mail makes it easy for the verbal part of that fragging to go on around the clock. Says Cheryl Dellasega, a humanities professor at Penn State's College of Medicine and creator of the Ophelia clubs: "They go back and forth on the computer all night, and the next day they're ready to fight...
...know that I will not like it 20 years from now when I'm 68 and having to be taken care of by these guys," says Dr. Paul Shekelle, a professor of medicine at UCLA. "It's all shift work now. When 5 o'clock comes, whatever it is they're doing, they just sign it all out to the 5 o'clock person. It's eroding the sense of duty, or commitment to being the person responsible for a patient's care...
...pressure suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed to be the first U.S. aircraft to carry man out to the edge of space...
...times are a-changin’ in Harvard Square, with the introduction of a new clock on top of the Cambridge Savings Bank (CSB). Though many students said they weren’t aware of the change, some students said they are unhappy with the new clock, which was installed Monday, April 3, and which replaces white digits with yellow ones. Rohini S. Rau-Murthy ’08 said she noticed the sign was different shortly after returning from spring break. “I remember noticing it and thinking it was incredibly garish,” she said...