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...child to meet somewhere or called them on the phone.Despite widespread incidences of unwarranted advances that occur over the internet, whether by email, instant messaging, or websites like Facebook, students are largely apathetic.R. Breffny Morgan ’08 is “comfortable with all of the information?? that he gives on Facebook, despite listing his e-mail address, cell phone number, and campus address. “When does browsing the Facebook become Facebook stalking?” he asks. “But there are good measures in place to control what people can find...
...things on Google’ so often it got to be exhausting to say so, and ‘to google’ was such an appealing alternative we took it up without a moment’s thought. Verbs stolen from nouns also carry a wealth of embedded information??facebooking someone in your section is much more interesting than merely ‘looking her up,’ as it suggests you’ll know who she’s friends with and whether she went to a “small, expensive and snobbish...
Realistically, torture consistently fails to yield reliable information from subjects. In a Washington Post article military intelligence expert and interrogator Army Col. Stuart Herrington stated that torture is “not a good way to get information?? and when inflicting pain on prisoners, “they’ll just tell you anything to get you to stop.” Captives frequently offer any information to avoid subjection to further inhumane processes; the dangers of working from such unreliable intelligence need not be explained. In the face of inefficiency, inaccuracy, and the danger of torturing...
...increased blood pressure in women, a joint study by the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham & Women’s Hospital has found. The team, headed by Dr. Wolfgang Winkelmayer, sent out questionnaires every two years to 238,371 female nurses, asking for medical histories and lifestyle information??including coffee consumption. These were compared with incidence of physician-reported and self-reported high blood pressure. The study, published last Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found a “modest inverse U-shaped relation” between coffee consumption and hypertension after controlling...
...application implicitly emphasizes those of his or her characteristics that are least important to creating a diverse student body, in the grand scheme of things. It isn’t enough for colleges to claim that applicants’ responses comprise “just another piece of information??; so long as universities proudly publish their minority matriculation figures each year, this black-and-white indicator of identity will undermine efforts at creating real diversity...