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Anxiety is a typical emotion for teenagers around the world upon leaving home to take up residence in a college dormitory. They face the daunting challenges of fitting in and making new friends amid unruly roommates and without the comfort of home cooking. But for thousands of Indian students, the anxiety is driven by an even greater menace: the prospect of constant verbal and physical abuse by senior students as part of a hazing tradition called "ragging," which critics say is systemic and far worse than in the United States...
That might be cold comfort if your knowledge of bees is based more on the 1978 movie The Swarm than on this season's box-office honeypot Bee Movie. "My job is to make sure swarming doesn't happen," says Benbow, who monitors his London hives weekly during the high season...
...most extreme conservatives who accuse abortion advocates of being murderers. It is exactly this sort of sensationalism that shows a lack of tolerance for belief. A bit of politeness never hurt anyone.For a woman, the experience of abortion is a time when she should turn to her confidants for comfort. Taking a pass on crying out from the rooftops does not mean she is being stigmatized. It means simply that, like so many things, an abortion is something one may get through best privately. Politicizing personal experiences is the tacky and useless rhetoric of feeble minds.Lucy M. Caldwell...
...Wildwood Lodge, 11431 Forest Avenue, Clive (515) 222-9876 Comfort Suites at Living History Farms, 11167 Hickman Rd, Urbandale...
...ever learned from them, and thus they haven’t stopped. Consider Yale’s most recent big mistake—not ending early action. We hope their admissions office enjoys reading those extra thousand early applications they’ve just received. Stressed much? Take comfort in knowing that all those extra applicants probably consider Yale their second (or eighth) choice school and will be applying to Harvard in the spring, regardless of what you offer them. But alas, come spring, over 1,000 naïve high school students will still make the mistake of matriculating...