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...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Pennsylvania Homesick Blues | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...Since I made Phi Beta Kappa/got into the Advocate/have a boyfriend, you could have also if you wanted to," whereas structuralists tend to externalize unhappiness or failure and ignore the role of individual initiative, "Since I didn't get summa on my thesis/make it into the Spee/become a chick magnet, it is because thesis readers/final clubs/girls at Harvard are unfair/elitist/ugly...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

Harvard Square, once a favorite shopping destination for Cambridge locals, was increasingly becoming the "magnet for college students all over New England," Sullivan says...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Counterculture City Catered to College Students | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard Square, once a favorite shopping destination for Cambridge locals, was increasingly becoming the "magnet for college students all over New England," Sullivan says...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The City & Region | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

Saunders' positive result came as a shock to the nurse, but it shouldn't have. Seniors are one of the fastest-growing HIV-infected populations in the U.S. Sunny south Florida, a magnet for retirees, has the largest concentration of people 50 or older with HIV. Seniors account for 14% of AIDS cases in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, compared with 10% nationally. "You've got people contracting it later in life," says Drace Langford, a member of the Florida HIV/AIDS and Aging Task Force. But there are also seniors who have been living with HIV for years, thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Never Too Old | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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