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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't stop thinking how this would change my life--destroy my life. He started radiation one morning and I had tried to explain to two friends how this made me feel, but I couldn't, and the subject faded. I told a few people haphazardly. What did I expect them...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: COFFEE AND POP | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...tell where all that tuition goes? A much larger chunk than one might expect flows into supplying undergraduates with bookshelves and pillows (yes, those pillows). Harvard spends a tremendous amount on the furniture its students trip over on the way through each other's walk-throughs. And although they replace the items only every 25 to 50 years, perhaps they still spend too much...

Author: By L.j. Powell, | Title: Cost of Living | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Excluding a few more factors, including genetics, alcohol intake and diet, this number is a good estimate of how long you can expect to live, according to the Life Expectancy Calculator, a featured part of a new book by two Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors...

Author: By Alysson R. Ford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Examine Human Lifespan | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...when we remember Dec. 5--I think it'll be the Boston College Massacre.' I have never seen this many points scored by one team-never in my life. I feel that some of those B.C. guys will be in therapy this morning. It's more than I expected. You don't expect someone to be that...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: The Running Man | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...other course. It makes perfect sense to go back to your favorite paper from your college career; you know a lot about the subject, you know you find it interesting and you'll have a chunk of material to get you off the ground. That said, don't expect to use much of it in the end; by your 200th rewrite, not much of what you wrote in three nights last reading period will be left intact. To have a paper that you might reasonably expand into a thesis, however...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Thesis Do's and Don't's | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

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