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...uncomfortable high school sex-ed class minus the acne. Here's a description of how menstruation works, there's a step by step description of how a man gets an erection; here's the reason why women have wide hips, there's a look at why testicles hang dangerously outside the body. Nothing we don't already know...
...fate of most other Russian bells that were, at the time, being destroyed by Stalin’s regime. They were returned in 2008 to their original home, the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, after many years of negotiations, in exchange for the new set of 17 bells that now hang in Lowell’s Bell Tower. Channing Yu ’93, who has been conducting the performance for the last few years, turned to the audience in a crowded Lowell Dining Hall to introduce the piece. “This is an annual tradition dating back...
...What the school didn't expect, however, was to hang on to so many of those top students. Typically, while admissions officials say Berea has a 54% chance of snagging a student who scores between 540 and 650 on the verbal section of the SAT, the chance of enrolling an applicant who gets between 660 and 800 is only 40%. Case in point: Bagnoli says he received a call on May 1 from a parent who reported that his daughter had gotten into Stanford, where her financial aid would cover four years of tuition, room, board and fees as well...
...someone’s got to choose.”Anne Harrington, chair of the history of science department, said she finds it unlikely that restructuring will occur at the departmental level because “the unit-analysis is wrong.”“We all hang together,” Harrington said. “If we each reshape ourselves, we’re going to end up a bunch of different-shaped puzzle pieces.”With the administration in discussions about a retirement incentive program for faculty and no indication of increasing...
...more than 1,800 people dead, mostly Muslims. Modi has refused to apologize for the massacres. He continues to be as capable of delivering fiery Hindu-nationalist speeches as he is in delivering essential public services to his people; he has has ruthlessly exploited religious divisions to attain and hang on to power. With this combination of prosperity gospel and virulent religion-based nationalism, he has become the Hindu right wing's most wanted campaigner during the current elections. In the next, he could be the party's candidate for the Prime Minister of India...