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...fungi and bacteria. Thimerosal can do serious damage to brain tissue, especially in children, whose brains are still developing. It was perhaps inevitable that parents would make a connection between the chemical and autism, since symptoms typically appear around age 2, by which time babies have already received a fair number of vaccines. That link could be merely temporal, of course; babies also get their first teeth after they get their first vaccines, but that doesn't mean one causes the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Vaccines? | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

...Texas Border Coalition, which includes just about every mayor and local Chamber of Commerce in the 1,200-mile Rio Grande Valley, accuses Chertoff of seizing land to build the fence without first negotiating a fair price. TBC's complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., also alleges that the Department of Homeland Security may be favoring wealthy landowners by routing the fence away from their property. "I puzzled a while over why the fence would bypass the industrial park and go through the city park," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, the coalition chairman, says in the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Border Fence: A Texas Turf War | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

...those of you who are unfamiliar with the history of “Fair Harvard”, Gilman’s 172-year-old hymn began with the phrase “Fair Harvard! Thy sons to thy jubilee throng!” Obviously, there is a gender-insensitive term there which prompted Kendric Packer ’48, to propose a contest to Harvard alums to provide a fitting alternative. Simply replacing “sons” with “children” had a belittling connotation and afforded one two many syllables to keep pace with...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...explain. “Fair Harvard” is a delightful hymn describing the excitement of Commencement day. The original language (“thy sons to thy jubilee throng”) indicates that students, admittedly male students, are “thronging” to the “jubilee” of Harvard graduation. The easiest reading of the new verse presents an obvious grammatical problem: “We join in thy jubilee throng,” is essentially saying “we come together at your jubilee.” This complete statement then leaves...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...meaning of the artist as intact as possible. When the Vatican fully renovated the Sistine Chapel (incidentally, also in 1994), it made extremely conservative and meticulous decisions to stay true to the original intentions of Michelangelo’s ceilinged masterpieces. The 1994 revision of “Fair Harvard,” however, completely departed from Gilman’s original meaning. It seemed that the fair alums of Harvard were so anxious to adopt a politically correct alternative to the first verse that they overlooked the artistic integrity of the piece as a whole...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

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