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...Efforts like the “Shoestring Strategies” are one method of easing this tough transition—and, in marketing terms, a way to soften Harvard’s image and signal a shift in its brand identity. The budget guide isn’t just for current students; prospective applicants can find a copy in PDF format on the College’s admissions website. Alongside the online guide is a new feature: streaming videos featuring an ethnically and geographically diverse group of undergraduates discussing their Harvard experiences. The videos are divided into sections such...
...sharpest motherfucker in the whole clan, he always on point. Razor sharp—with the beats, with the rhymes, whatever…” There is no better description of the man, the myth, the legend of the RZA, then this excerpt from an interview with Method Man, on “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” the Clan’s debut LP. Hip-hop’s original dynasty, the Wu-Tang clan—which includes the RZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Method Man, GZA and others—brought...
...suspect Lifestyles), FM decided to get to the bottom of the love-glove travesty. First, we tested our condoms for “resistance” using an “ohmmeter.” Condom experts use ohmmeters to test condoms’ permeability. But their method is confusing. FM just hooked the condoms up jumper-cable style to see how much juice we could flow through them. Lifestyle and Durex tied for first at 1.5 kilo-ohms. Trojan clocked in at 1.25 kilo-ohms. We’re not really sure what this means. Next, we tested...
...years, doctors have hoped to offer women the opportunity to weigh their options earlier. Last week brought good news on that front. A $15 million study, six years in the making and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that a method of screening women for Down in the first trimester is an even better indicator of risk than second-trimester screening. The aptly named FASTER study (for first- and second- trimester evaluation of risk), published in the New England Journal of Medicine, determined that if done properly, the first-trimester screening detects...
...correct that it is behind the synchronized suicide bombings of three American-owned chain hotels in the center of Amman, Jordan, it would mark the first time that Abu Musab Zarqawi, who claimed responsibility less than 24 hours later, has pulled off a major atrocity in Jordan. The method and the targets bore the hallmarks of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, whose franchise in Iraq, which specializes in suicide bombings and beheadings of kidnap victims, is headed up by Zarqawi. The bomber at the Radisson SAS hotel is thought to have walked into a hall where a wedding...