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Simply put, alcohol poisoning is a serious and potentially fatal condition. As the November fifth editorial in The Crimson points out, there were 30 fans transported to hospitals by ambulance and at least six students treated for potentially fatal alcohol poisoning following The Game in 2002. We have to recognize that some students are putting themselves (and others) in danger, and we must act as a community to promote safe behavior...
...Kinsey also takes sex into a broader sociological context by dramatizing the fatal flaw of Kinsey’s research and personal sex life. Kinsey was the first person to ever study sex objectively, an inherently flawed occupation because “sex [is] a factory of emotion,” says Condon. This was an “inconvenient thought for [Kinsey] because he was trying to separate sex and study it completely from a scientific perspective...
...years after the likes of V.S. Naipaul and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--foreignness has itself been a driving theme. The classic Desai figure is the title character of her most propulsive novel, 1988's Baumgartner's Bombay, an old-style German long settled in India who comes into fatal contact with a younger German of the mobile, backpacking generation. Nowadays, when millions are living in places not fully their own, foreignness is nothing to write home about. The characters in Ali's and Lahiri's fiction might be the daughters, even the granddaughters, of Desai, faced not with a split between...
Electronic stability control, or ESC (a computerized system that brakes the car if it's out of control), reduces the risk of single-vehicle accidents 41% and fatal ones 56%, according to a study released last week by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Since half the 28,000 fatal passenger-vehicle accidents that occur each year involve a single vehicle, the report noted, some 7,000 lives could have been saved in 2003 alone if ESC had been a standard feature on all vehicles. The report follows similar findings released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in September...
...safety risks to students was unquestionably admirable. The most persuasive arguments opposing the ban centered on the ineffectiveness and arbitrariness of eliminating kegs. And indeed, at the 2002 Harvard-Yale Game, about 30 fans were transported to hospitals by ambulance, and at least six students were treated for potentially fatal alcohol poisoning. One student, whose ambulance got stuck in the mud, almost died...