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Thus we look away from campus, toward the fall colors of Vermont, the bright lights of New York, the twin town of Providence, R.I. We gaze as Gatsby did to the green light on the end of the dock, but for us, like him, it is inaccessible. It represents a certain freedom that we, as Harvard students, find it difficult to grant ourselves. To do so would mean going against the work ethic that Harvard's Puritan founders successfully instilled in cobblestones of the pavement and the bricks of the buildings--and the more modern ethic of mandatory 60-hour...
...When you're learning to row, you don't fall in. People do go swimming off the dock, and freshmen have been thrown in the water before, but no one's ever been sick...
...cells. The researchers already knew that HIV uses this particular chemokine, variously dubbed CKR-5 or CCR-5, as a gateway into the cell. They knew that CKR-5 does not grant the virus access all by itself. Before it can gain entry, HIV has to dock with another gateway protein called CD-4 at the same time that it attaches to CKR-5. So the scientists decided to look at the genetic profile of a handful of healthy men who have never been infected with HIV despite repeated exposure to the virus...
Considering that Skinny Legs Restaurant boasted the only dinghy dock in town and that our fish and steak were frozen to the bottom of our boat's fridge, we decided to follow the advice...
...daylight, the rescuers were exhausted. New York City police harbor patrolman Anthony Sgueglia was standing on the dock wearing heavy blue rubber gloves. The bodies Sgueglia found were badly bruised, with most of the limbs broken. The county medical examiner would later say many of the victims technically drowned, though they may already have been unconscious when they hit water. No one was found alive...