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Inside Memorial Hall, first years fill outforms and sign their names several times. Theyexit the building, only to enter a tent in whichthey are attacked from all sides by members ofvarious extracurricular groups: JoinHarvard-Radcliffe Orchestra! Comp the Advocate!Interested in Public Service? Wanna be a HarvardCheerleader? Comp The crimson! Studentsinvariably get involved in some of theseactivities and wind up either enriched or bootedfrom school after they devote 20 hours a day tothe organization and forget to study...
Even before these disturbing reports appeared, American women were distinctly less exuberant about estrogen than their doctors. A 1987 survey showed that 20% of women given a prescription for estrogen never even fill it. Of those who do begin taking the hormone, a third stop within nine months, and more than half quit within one year. Many others go on and off HRT. Some do it because they don't feel quite right on the medication, some because they hate taking drugs, many because they worry about cancer. "I feel like a guinea pig," complains a 52-year-old woman...
These days washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy, like Newt the slasher, Bill the waffler and Jesse the crank -- Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the "black seat" vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely...
...data also fill in one more piece of the puzzle of planetary formation. Astronomers have observed dusty disks surrounding many nearby stars, and the laws of gravity suggest that sooner or later the dust should coagulate into bigger and bigger pieces-comet- and asteroid-size at least, and very likely into chunks the size of planets...
These players will have to step up to fill the holes left by numerous departing seniors. Captain Bo Bernhard, infielder Joe Weidenbach outfielder James Crowley and pitcher Jamie Irving will all be lost to graduation...