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...Police Department spokesman Lt. Paul F. Covino. Tufts University spokeswoman Kim M. Thurler confirmed that at least two Tufts students were victims, including the first incident on March 31, when a female student reported being lured into a car and then sexually assaulted. While Covino declined to release the exact number of cases under investigation, he said that the majority of the victims were not college students. In response to the string of attacks, Tufts University police and security guards have been assigned to patrol the campus and surrounding neighborhoods, according to Thurler. Harvard University Police Department spokesman Steven...
...infectious “BOOM-ch-boom-ch” beat in the summer of 2005, while walking through New York City during the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Crossing through the huge crowds with my roommate, I wondered why all the tricked-out trucks and lowriders were blasting the exact same song from their subwoofers. It wasn’t until I listened past the thumping bass and clockwork rhythm that I realized that I was hearing a whole genre of music; almost all reggaeton songs feature an identical drum rhythm, called “Dem Bow” after...
...covering “White Rabbit”? What could Patti possibly have to say about drug culture today? Maybe she heard about Ecstasy on “Dateline” the other night and thought acid culture was the exact same thing...
...song. As the tempo picks up, she loses her inhibitions and breaks into a strut. The strut becomes a trot, then a gallop that she maintains only until she sees fit to fully break into dance. Her name’s Feist (Leslie Feist, to be exact); and you’re sure to fall in love with...
...What would be far more useful, however, is to know individual patients’ exact genomes. Why? First, it would allow physicians to screen patients’ entire genome for gene variants that predispose us for certain diseases—instead of ordering a volley of individual (read: expensive) tests for different disorders. Women who carry a gene variant known to increase breast cancer risk, for example, would be able to begin mammograms earlier in life. Second, it would allow physicians to personalize medical treatments. In a few cases, this is already possible. The breast cancer drug Tamoxifen is much...