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Allen Alias, the corporate communications director for Providian Financial Corporation, a credit card provider, says his organization primarily makes use of lists produced by credit bureaus. Although these lists may sometimes contain the names and addresses of students, Alias says his company makes every effort not to solicit individuals under...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You've Got Mail! | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...doctor to know. To make it easier to attend her winter formal, a wedding and a few other special events, she tricked her body into skipping its monthly menstrual cycle several times in the past year. How? Instead of taking the last seven pills in her contraceptive case, which contain the placebos, or dummy pills, that allow her uterine lining to slough off each month, she immediately started her next month's batch of active medication. Result: instead of the usual 13 periods a year, she had nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Menstrual Period? | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...shift supervisor flips through yesterday's incident reports, which contain details about arrests, crimes and new suspects. He reads the reports with the occasional joke...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 24 Hours with HUPD | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...secondary will rely on junior cornerbacks Willie Alford and Andy Fried to contain opposing wide receivers...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fresh Blood | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...languorous but dense, interspersed with tiny print and pictures that force one to crane over it, literally trying to enter the book. Many of the spreads, including the fold-open dust jacket, are crazy quilts, stitched with dotted lines and arrows, as if the very seams were straining to contain the story. "You have to keep turning the book," says New Yorker cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who first nationally published Ware in Raw magazine. "It's a dizzy-making, Oz-like tornado that takes you out of Kansas and into his world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Comics: Right Way, Corrigan | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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