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Thousands of years ago, doctors used alcohol in prescriptions for everything from chronic cough to anxiety. But modern medicine discovered that alcohol is responsible for at least 12 different major ailments, from gastrointestinal bleeding to brain damage. Besides, 30% of long-term users also become alcohol dependent. Edward H. Jeon, M.D., WEST HILLS, CALIF...
...Washington political set scurried to get out of town for holiday vacations, Martin bulldozed through a dramatic relaxation of the cross-ownership rules that ensure a diversity of voices in our local media markets. Now, local media moguls can buy both a television station and the major newspaper in the local market. And because people of color and women are more likely to be single-station owners, they are especially susceptible to local consolidation efforts...
...football teams grab Ivy League titles by the fistful, the school has nationally ranked squads in hockey, soccer, tennis, squash, and crew, and women’s hoops is poised to qualify for the Big Dance for the second straight year.The April hiring of Amaker, who has experience helming major-conference teams at Seton Hall and Michigan, seemed to signal a long-overdue move on the part of the administration to repair the historically pathetic program. This process has to include giving the coach the go-ahead to attract Ivy championship-caliber players to Cambridge.According to Thamel, several candidates...
Anyone who has attempted to spend a night sharing another person’s bed here at Harvard has encountered one major obstacle. No, it’s not Harvard’s famed lack of a vibrant social scene or a dearth of viable partners—not only these, anyway—but rather a lack of space in the beds themselves. Perhaps it was Harvard’s intention to promote undergraduate chastity by supplying such inadequate sleeping arrangements; if it was, however, the college has failed. Students still pair up after parties and crash with their...
Being able to share a bed with someone is one of the major freedoms involved in life on campus. To that end, ingenious undergrads here have attempted to work around physical limitations. Regulation beds have been enlarged using cinderblocks and plywood. Second mattresses have been adjoined. Larger mattresses and even futons are bought in order to gain a little extra width. Clearly Harvard does not satisfy its students with its bedding...