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Danz: Yes. Everybody at Harvard is rushed. The fact that we need to build it [for students] to flip through when they know they're supposed to be paying attention in lecture shows the average amount of time that the average student is willing to devote to their love life...
Some of the floating economic refugees, especially those from the middle and working classes, "do not think of themselves as homeless," says Susan Price, director of homeless services in Long Beach. "They think, 'I'm not that. I am just living in my car.' " In fact, living in your car counts as being homeless, according to the Federal Government. Peggy, 58, who lives in a small RV on a quiet Hollywood side street, says, "If I had known how hard it is to be homeless and how hard it is to escape, I would have called all my friends...
...what make CRASH-Bs such an absolutely absurd event. What’s really unfathomable about CRASH-Bs is the low entry barrier. You don’t have to be Olympic or National team caliber. You don’t have to be a college star. In fact, you don’t have to be any kind of great athlete...
...lack of trying. Female ski jumpers have petitioned to join every Winter Olympics since Nagano in 1998, and each time they have been denied by the International Olympics Committee (IOC). In fact, ski jumping is the only Olympic discipline to remain men-only. (Technically, Nordic combined is also limited to males, but that's because it includes ski jumping.) In 1991 the IOC announced that all future Olympic sports must be open to both genders, but the rule didn't apply to sports that already existed - and as one of the 16 original events in the inaugural Winter Games...
Another hurdle to a consensus on how to deal with sex ambiguity is the fact that there is very little scientific data on whether DSDs confer any real advantages to athletes. In the 2008 paper "Intersex and the Olympic Games," Robert Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University, noted, "There is no evidence that female athletes with DSD have displayed any sports-relevant physical attributes which have not been seen in biologically normal female athletes...