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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...higher than those found in teetotalers." On a more sober note, U.C.S.F.'s Dr. Richard Havel warns: "Anyone who recommends raising HDL by drinking is playing with fire." Stress too has a detrimental effect. Studies have shown that the cholesterol levels of medical students peak at exam time, while accountants hit their high point around April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Eggs and Butter | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...really been playing well as any one of the since exam break," said the seventh-year Harvard Coach, whose squad won eight of its last 10 games...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard Awaits Post-Season Invitations to NIT Tourney | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

PRETEND for a moment that you are a first-year law student. You've worked hard all semester, you've participated in class, you've done the reading. Then you sit down at the three-hour final exam, and you freeze up. C-on the exam means C-for the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making The Grade | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

While grades have their uses, the fact is, performance on a three hour first-year final exam does not necessarily translate into legal scholarship skills, good writing or editing ability, or any other virtue that the Law Review might reasonably desire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making The Grade | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

...even dream of sleeping late if there's a reserve book simmering on your desk: it will cost you $4.25 a day. Keep it over the weekend and you've bought it. Never, never get sick during exam period: each make-up exam carries a fee of $25. Luckily, the Handbook for Students does offer some hope for relief, if you write to the Registrar four weeks in advance and cancel the exam, you are relieved of your financial obligations. You go scot-free. Unfortunately, you also fail the course...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: In Loco Parentis? | 2/18/1984 | See Source »

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