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...homosexual, 42, who drives a cab in Cambridge, Mass., thought he had an allergic reaction to a laundry detergent. Two doctors and a second attack later, he knew. "I was an angry person before and I'm angrier now," he says. His earliest fear was that herpes scars on his genitals would make him unattractive to other men, but that no longer concerns him. Now, like many sufferers, he has become a "professor of herpes," plunging into the medical literature when he has time, trying to control the disease by understanding it. He refuses to risk infecting others...
...which Falstaff got away from Shakespeare and walked off with the play. And it is true that Falstaff's is the longest role in the play--without any interpolations from elsewhere. But the playwright's main business here is serious history. In fact, I Henry IV is the earliest extant example of the word history used to designate a dramatic genre. By playing down the history and inflating Falstaff (who is already inflated from excess of food and drink). Shakespeare's balanced design shuttling from palace to pub, from province to plain of battle-is upset...
...remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will take many years of social development that is now only in its earliest stages...
...dawn of the computer era in the 1950s, nobody worried much about getting information from one computer to another. The earliest machines were housed in air-conditioned rooms, and operators had to work close by in order to use them. The proliferation of remote terminals in the 1970s, though, allowed people to use the computer from locations scattered around an office. But the terminals usually had to be made by the same manufacturer and could not operate independently of the central unit...
...that one impetus for this project was his fear that the expected post-World War II technology boom would eventually lead to an "evaporation" of interest in the social sciences and humanities. Calling the origin of Gen Ed "another great event," Finley points to one of the plan's earliest successes: Humanities 3, which he taught with Harry Levin '33, Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature. "The Epic and the Novel" remained one of Harvard's most popular courses through the years, and, when last offered in 1973, it attracted more than 850 students, second in enrollment only to Harvard...