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...Even as the Houses stopped interviewing potential residents, the Houses took on more distinct personalities. Diversity of Houses was one thing; diversity in the Houses was quite another. "I do not believe that a community must have two of everything, like Noah's Ark," said former Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely in the days before random House assignments. Currier House became the choice of many of the College's minority students, who comprised about one-third of its population during the early 1990s, and the Houses moved more and more in their own directions. The Houses had less...
FLASH! Tamoxifen may help prevent breast cancer, but one of the most common and intrusive side effects is hot flashes, even among women who've already gone through menopause. Relief may be in sight. A small study suggests that women who take the high-blood-pressure drug clonidine experience about one-third fewer flashes...
According to Yale Director of Information Technology Services Daniel Updegrove, that school banned Napster use from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays because the service was using up to one-third of the network bandwidth...
...Grossman, who will graduate in the spring with KSG and HLS degrees, plans to work for a prominent law firm in Washington D.C. where one-third of the work is governmental...
UNDERAGE SMOKING Teen smoking declined in the 1980s but has increased more than one-third in the past decade. A new study says lower cigarette prices and law-bending retailers are responsible for the rise. When prices drop, more teens begin smoking. And more retailers are selling tobacco to underage kids. In Georgia, minors working undercover with police were sold cigarettes 53% of the time...