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...area that prompted people to say things like, "You mean that's still the United States? I thought that was Mexico!" when pointed out on a map. I saw that I was going to stay in the Boston/Cambridge/Somerville area every summer, somehow, some way. I saw my future fold out before my eyes...
Finally, my bias on this issue is two-fold and conflicting. On the one hand, my mother is a professor of education. Some of the students who have been waiting anxiously to get their test results, waiting as they are called stupid and ignorant by politicians who cared little about education until something went wrong, are her students. She is one of the professors granting the diplomas Speaker Finneran likened to used tissue. She is also someone deeply committed to education, someone skilled in and passionate about the training of teachers. She, like the rest of us, is waiting...
...match. The Crimson saw its 89-match winning streak, the longest in the nation, come to an end at the hands of the Trinity Bantams, 6-3. So Harvard entered the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquet's Association (NISRA) Team Championship as the No. 2 seed with a two-fold goal--keep its dynasty alive and avenge its loss to Trinity...
...infertile; 18 percent will experience debilitating chronic pelvic pain; and 9 percent will have a life-threatening tubal pregnancy [which] is the leading cause of first-trimester, pregnancy-related deaths in American women.... In addition, recent research has shown that women infected with chlamydia have a three-to five-fold increased risk of acquiring HIV, if exposed.... "It is particularly troubling for our age group, as the CDC notes: "teenage girls have the highest rates of chlamydial infection. ...15- to 19-year-old girls represent 46 percent of infections and 20- to 24-year-old women represent another 33 percent...
...since the Titanic set sail has the sea seemed so alluring or the cruise industry looked so unsinkable as it does today. With 5 million customers booking passage last year--a 10-fold increase from two decades ago--major carriers such as Carnival and Royal Caribbean have steamed to record sales and profits. They have turned a once snooty form of travel into mass-market vacations for people like Ken and Sherry Nunn and daughter Ashley, an Indiana family that recently spent three nights aboard Royal Caribbean's cozy 2,250-passenger Sovereign of the Seas. "Everything's right there...