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Sally, a Harvard freshman who occasionally gulps handfuls of laxatives to cleanse her body of excess calories consumed during food binges, agrees. "I think Harvard is a perfect microcosm for eating disorders," she says. Afflicted with one offshoot of bulimia, Sally shuns forced vomiting ("I hate the idea of hurting myself"), and instead relies on laxative overdoses to combat overeating...
...world's exaggerators, none surpasses the Arabs, whose language is a symphony of poetical excess. A Cairo gas station attendant greets his co-workers in the morning: "May your day be scented with jasmine." Sometimes the exaggerations that are inherent in Arabic can be dangerous. Saudi Arabia's late King Saud once told a visiting group of Palestinian journalists that "the Arabs must be ready to sacrifice a million lives to regain the sacred soil of Palestine." It was rhetoric, a flourish; Arabs hearing it would no more take it literally than would an American football crowd hearing...
...training practices seem to be common on the Harvard campus this season. Consider the body-building technique practiced by a few of the Harvard women's swim team. Coming back from workout last night, several members of the squad were bursting with excess energy, which they decided to unleash in push-ups conducted at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boylston St. on the "Walk" sign. "Our goal is to do five on the green light instead of the red," sprinter DEBBIE MARKSON says...
Upperclassmen living in Adams, Claverly, Kirkland, Winthrop and parts of Leverett, North and South Houses, as well as freshmen living in Greenough, Hurlbut, Lionel, Massachusetts, and Thayer and Mower Halls will be able to shut off excess heat this winter by manipulating the valves, which have been adapted to radiators...
Joyce said the valves will not cause additional heatflow. "That valve only does one thing--it limits the excess heat and does not provide heat," he said...