Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your idea of a perfect summer probably isn't spending eight weeks in a classroom with fluorescent lighting, studying calculus or writing essays. Who wants to take an organic chemistry textbook to the beach--or wake up to a grating alarm clock through the sultry months of July and August...
...Nightline Moderator Ted Koppel at Duke University, Durham, N.C.: We have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us. Shoot up if you must, but use a clean needle. Enjoy sex whenever and with whomever you wish, but wear a condom. No! The answer is no. Not because it isn't cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward, but no because it's wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching...
...that it isn't appreciated. People have been known to wash their own dishes. Most everyone makes change at the cash register, paying the bill unassisted, unobserved, as the cafe talk rolls on in a relaxed, little- village-stuck-in-time...
...proper role of the Undergraduate Council should be to improve College life, says past-Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87. The council "really isn't a governmental body" but is instead concerned with student issues, says Offutt. The motivation for running for council should be an interest in making Harvard's life a little better, he says...
...community now well organized to fight AIDS, the rate of infection among homosexuals appears to be declining. The CDC's Jaffe does not want the public to decrease its vigilance, but he would like to mute the hysteria. AIDS, he says, "is a fairly discrete problem . . . Why it isn't getting out beyond the immediate sexual partners of risk-group members, I don't know. Is the disease going to sweep into the heterosexual population, like Africa...