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...some ways in which you can look out for yourselves and your friends?” Students were just as straightforward in asking questions of the alcohol czar. “What about hangover cures?” asked one sophomore. “Does booting it out lower your blood alcohol level?” another student, this one old enough to drink legally, wondered. “I liked his approach,” Pat M. Tomaino ’07 said of Travia. But Dustin T. Clausen ’08 said, “It?...
...study. The study found that the risk of heart attack in women is largely unaffected by the drug, except in women over the age of 65, who experience both a reduction in the risk of strokes and of heart attacks. The risk of stroke, however, was 17 percent lower in women taking aspirin as opposed to those taking a placebo, the study said. Similarly, the risk due to blood clotting, the primary cause of strokes, was 24 percent lower in female aspirin users, according to the study. In 2003, women accounted for around 61 percent of stroke deaths...
...were murdered. The tally this month, at four murders so far, looks headed in a similar direction. At this rate, 54 people will be murdered in New Orleans this year for every 100,000 people in the city. The New Orleans Police Department claims the murder rate is actually lower than this, largely because the department relies upon a an estimated population of 190,000 for the city. TIME is using a population estimate of 155,000 released on March 15 by RAND, a nonprofit research organization that has been asked to do regular estimates by the Bring New Orleans...
...Elmo is gone again,” Patricia G. Pepper, assistant to the master, announced in an e-mail to a House list Friday. “Elmo” refers to a painting of the red-furred Sesame Street character that normally hangs on the lower main level of the House. Even its name has furred eyebrows. “I don’t like that people refer to it as the ‘Elmo painting,’ because Lambchop is just as prominent in the picture,” said Kiernan P. Schmitt...
...financial aid] money for students than giving it directly to those who need it most for their books,” said Amadi P. Anene ’08, a UC representative who sponsored the act. STOP Campaign Co-Director Chaz M. Beasley ’08 said that lower-income students face a double burden of high textbooks costs—they may need to avoid courses with particularly expensive course literature, and when those courses are required, they often must rely on library reserves or fellow classmates for course materials.“We want to make sure...