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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last but not least, Quincy’s formal. There's no beating the location of this ball, as it's held at The Estate in Boston. However, our guess is that this ball is most likely to have some type of infectious disease...Paris loves to frequent this place...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Katherine A. Petti | Title: FlyBy's Guide to the Balls | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...There have been a number of estimates as to the financial effects of a pandemic. Some range as high as a 5% drop in global GDP. The calculations that would go into an exercise to come up with a reasonable guess would require more work than the entire length of the recession would allow. But, a pandemic is a long shot for several reasons. The most obvious reason is that healthcare and disease monitoring are much more sophisticated now than they were just six years ago at the beginning of the SARS epidemic, which turned out fortunately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Recession: Disease and Terrorism | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Tenured at age 34 in September of 2006, one would never guess Tian’s status as an expert of her field from her youthful appearance. It wouldn’t be the first time that she’s exceeded expectations. Tian graduated from Beijing University at the tender age of 17 before receiving her doctorate in comparative literature here at Harvard...

Author: By Sanghyeon Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Faculty Hot Shots: Xiaofei Tian | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...history,” Perkovich said. “Sex has never been quite so visible or quite so dangerous.” The seven-person panel began with a question from Sarah Rankin, director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, who asked the audience to guess how many sexual partners the average Harvard student has in a year. Only a handful of attendees guessed zero, but Rankin listed statistics from the National College Health Assessment at Harvard which reported that 42% of respondents had zero sexual partners in the last academic year...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pre-frosh Attend Talks on Sex | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...family's automotive path has been replicated in millions of garages across America. Unlike me, my kids didn't grow up in the backseat of a Pontiac. They grew up in the backseat of a Honda Accord, then a Toyota Camry and finally a Toyota Sienna minivan. So guess what? I suspect that when it's their turn to buy their first new cars, they'll be looking at the brands they know best, just as their father did a generation ago. Their old man wishes, in his heart, that they could buy a Pontiac. But his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pontiac, RIP: A Love Affair Gone Sour | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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