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With flu season upon us, there’s no better time than now to get your fill of fun from cough syrup. You might have to drink a healthier amount than what you normally imbibe on a Saturday night to get the same effect, though...
DEADBEAT PARENTS Could lose driver's licenses in Michigan and Wisconsin if they don't cough up child support...
Number of cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, among U.S. teens and adults that could be prevented each year with a booster vaccination. Most children, for whom the long-lasting coughing illness can be fatal, get several pertussis shots by age 6, but immunity wears off. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says one extra shot for teens and adults would do the trick...
...show can draw an audience of 30 million. Add to that movie trailers, animated shorts, old syndicated shows, DVD-extra-style exclusives, and the entire television industry, which is hungry for new kinds of revenue, is going to have to reorient itself. And maybe a few other industries besides (cough! porn! cough...
Perhaps the most compelling idea for a mandatory curriculum came from the youngest writer, Ryan A. Thorpe ’08, in his suggestion of a “formal introduction to scholarly thought.” Thorpe laments that Harvard excels in churning out technicians in particular concentrations (cough, economics!) who lack a “clear conception of the grounds of debate” upon which their entire field of study rests. He argues that students need to take a course that that seeks to get to the big questions about the purpose of scholarly pursuit. Ultimately, even...