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...Croydon, A grim suburb south of London, and the locals are indulging in the standard rituals of an English Friday night. Two guys with broad smiles and droopy eyes stagger into the road, arms outstretched to embrace any lucky target. Gaggles of young women bounce in and out of the 19 bars that line the main stretch, their skyscraper heels giving good clearance over puddles of vomit. Huddled around a cash machine, glammed up in gold-sequined headbands and lace gloves, Laura and her friends are gearing up for a big night. Are they going to get drunk? "Yeah!" they...
BOSTON—In last night’s road loss at Northeastern, roughly half of the Harvard bench wore mesh Crimson uniforms. The other half, donned in the grim black jumpsuits of the team’s injured, served as a constant and visible reminder of the team’s rotten luck. “We’ve been bitten by the bug real bad,” sophomore guard Lindsay Hallion said. Joining a trio of hobbled freshman on the sidelines was co-captain Jessica Holsey, who sat ominously on the bench with...
According to the most recent global figures released by the United Nations, HIV/AIDS has taken the lives of over three million people in the past year. Meanwhile, an estimated five million people contracted HIV, swelling the ranks of those currently living with the disease to 40 million. Whether these grim figures may be familiar or new to you, they inevitably remain too abstract to convey the destruction wrought by the disease in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the world. Though certainly jarring, the figures fail to describe both the demographics of the disease and the efforts being...
...Angeles has the largest homeless population and the highest poverty rate in the country, declaring that “we need to face this shame down and own up to our responsibilities.” “We still live in a society where opportunity remains a grim function of race and class for too many of our people,” he said. During the question-and-answer session, Villaraigosa touched on the importance of youth involvement in public service. “Young people have a very important role in society to be that catalyst for change...
...donated their eggs?a critical component for embryonic-stem-cell studies?for his research, and that an associate had paid other women for their eggs in 2002 and 2003. "Being too focused on scientific development, I may not have seen all the ethical issues related to my research," a grim Hwang said at a news conference in Seoul, announcing he would step down as head of the newly created World Stem Cell...