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Lauren J. Feldman '97, a transfer from Duke,listed Lowell House as her third choice. However,she's delighted with her new home there...
...every U.S. telephone network of any consequence was MOD's playground. At first they used their powers for harmless high jinks: looking up the unlisted numbers of celebrities, pestering people they disliked (such as white supremacist Tom Metzgar and former Klansman David Duke) and calling the homes of people they admired (Richard Gere, Julia Roberts). But gradually, they began to trespass on more than just the telephone lines. With Phiber's help, the crew infiltrated the computer networks of TRW, Martin Marietta, the Bank of America, the National Security Agency and Chiquita Banana. At one point, two MOD members...
...Cecil Taylor sounds approximately like a jazz pianist on acid. He performs with the standard format of a jazz combo: piano, bass, drums, and a hornman, in this case, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. The group records several versions of tunes from the standard jazz repertoire. Hearing Taylor perform the Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn composition "Johnny Come Lately" has almost the shock value that hearing Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star Spangled Banner" must have had ten years later. The familiar jazzman's repertoire turns into a nightmare version of itself on Taylor's earliest recordings...
...block such biological triggers with drugs. No one is claiming a cure for obesity, but the early results are encourageing. "For the first time, I feel that I have some ability to actually help people lose weight beyond simply trying to motivate them," says Dr. Michael Hamilton of Duke University...
...tends to be eaten quickly, which means more of it is consumed; and 3) it tends to get eaten, all of it, no matter how much of it there is. "I've found that people have no idea what they're eating," says Claudia Plaisted, a dietitian at Duke University's Center for Living, a health camp for adults. "They just eat until they clean their plates...