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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fifteen years later, Roiphe’s criticisms still ring true. At Harvard, administrators who have attempted to inject a similar dose of reality into the sexual violence debate have been ridiculed. As noted by Sahil K. Mahtani ’08, a seemingly anomalous one-time poster to MenSpeakUp.org, when former College Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68 encouraged female undergraduates to walk with companions late at night, he was accused of “blaming the victim...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Talk We Don’t Need | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...leaving our multicelled tissues intact. (Blood cells would be fair game for the destructive emulsion, however, so the solution could not be injected into the body.) In animal studies, says Dr. James Baker, the company's chairman of the board, the spray protected 90% of mice from a lethal dose of influenza. The company is also testing a combination of the traditional flu vaccine with the emulsion, which, says Baker, provides a 50-times-greater immune response than the vaccine alone, even if using only one-sixth the usual vaccine dose. This technique is still too experimental to be helpful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fast Could a Swine Flu Vaccine Be Produced? | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...which people had been infected with swine flu and Canada confirmed several new cases. In the U.S., where 20 such infections have been confirmed, federal health officials declared a public-health emergency and are preparing to distribute to state and local agenciesa quarter of the country's 50 million-dose stockpile of antiviral drugs. Meanwhile, in hard-hit Mexico, where more than 80 people have died from what is believed to be swine flu, the government closed all public schools and canceled hundreds of public events in Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu: 5 Things You Need to Know About the Outbreak | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...fluent in Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese, is quick to credit Rosetta Stone for engaging more people in language learning. However, Ferriss argues that by shunning grammar and exercises leveraging one's native language, Rosetta Stone slows the learning process. "There's a real benefit to having the right dose of grammatical awareness, as well as English explanation," says Ferriss, whose book, The 4-Hour Workweek, is currently eighth on the New York Times business best-seller list. "The idea that you can learn honorific speech in Japanese without English explanation, for example, is, to me, handicapping. Rosetta Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rosetta Stone: Speaking Wall Street's Language | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

Studies with hamsters have revealed that when given an unlimited amount of testosterone, hamsters will dose themselves repeatedly until they die, as with opiate drugs...

Author: By Beverly E. Pozuelos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Disorders Linked to Steroid Use | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

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