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...Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar) is being decimated by a videotape so entertaining that people watch it on a loop, mesmerized until they die of dehydration or starvation or lack of sleep. Reading it, you realize how soul-sad lonely you are. And Wallace creates that effect, like Pynchon, while being laugh-out-loud funny...
...important step toward addressing and improving race relations at Harvard. Although many such committees—especially those at Harvard—prove to be the deathbeds rather than the springboards of initiative, the University has vested this particular committee with the influential members and wide latitude necessary to effect positive and tangible change in how HUPD interacts with minority groups on campus. Now, the Harvard community can only hope that this committee makes good on its potential.The University’s decision was prompted, in part, by a series of controversial encounters between HUPD officers and minorities on campus...
...cancer is a remarkable achievement. But while there has been an admirable effort on the part of the medical and public health communities to ensure girls are vaccinated, their male counterparts have been overlooked. The main argument for vaccinating both genders is simple numbers. Vaccines can only be completely effective if everyone is vaccinated, thereby eliminating the possibility of anyone catching or spreading the disease. The same logic should apply to the HPV vaccine. As the HPV vaccine is relatively new––and is not part of the standard battery of child vaccinations?...
...first controlled study of direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies, researchers at the Medical School found that such marketing has a modest effect, if any at all, on drug sales...
Soumerai’s findings, published last Tuesday on the Web site of the British Medical Journal, show little or no effect of advertising on prescriptions and fuel the ever-controversial debate on DTCA...