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...Also representing GMDVP was an anonymous survivor of gay domestic violence who commenced the event by sharing his account. He stared mostly at his lap as he revealed how a past relationship had morphed from one filled with cooking and country music to one filled with 82 hospital visits and broken bones. He said his jaw was broken when his boyfriend pushed him downstairs and that he still takes medication daily to control ulcerations in his intestines, vestiges of the abuse...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Hosts Domestic Violence Talk | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different. I've left it on the floor. Sometimes, I'll shoot with it on my lap. Other times, I'll put it on a table and turn it on. You don't make it a big issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with D.A. Pennebaker | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...Administration's sudden respect for international law as applied to the war in Iraq? Two cases before a federal appeals court in Washington present the odd spectacle of Justice Department lawyers claiming that, legally speaking, the war is out of U.S. hands and in the U.N.'s lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Law of Convenience | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...materials science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Because it conducts heat so well, for example, diamond could be particularly useful for the small-electronics industry, which relies on ever more powerful processors that generate incredible amounts of heat. (Just try working with your laptop computer actually on your lap for a few hours.) "When you go to the next-generation semiconductor, you're running something not too different from a toaster oven," Sadoway says. Because it doesn't retain heat, diamond can run processors of supercomputing power at lower temperatures compared with processors using silicon, the industry standard today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds De Novo | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...back. “I had some great competition in that race,” Hart said. “Moira and I have been competing for three years and it has always been back and forth between us. I felt good and took it out that last lap.” Clarke and Weisenthal followed their strong swims in day one with a 1-2 finish in the 500-yard freestyle. Junior Bridget O’Connor gave the Crimson another first place with a 55.89-second win in the 100-yard butterfly. In the dive portion...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Swimming Tames Bulldogs, Not Tigers | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

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