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...besides projecting an image of "maternal chic," would one opt to spend hours of toil on a pair of socks when one could support the local sweatshop by picking up a pair at Filene's Basement? Like foxhunts, senior theses and binge drinking, the point is the process, not the end result. "Nothing says I love you like a pair of well-knit socks," claims Lowell House sophomore Michael C. Large...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, | Title: Everything Old is New Again: | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...Silence on Abortion" (Opinion, Oct. 30), Daniel H. Choi waxes righteously indignant about the fact that, unless they go out of their way to opt out, students are helping to fund abortions. I share his annoyance at this situation. People should not be permitted to opt out of helping to pay for abortions, or any other legal procedure. Should Jehovah's Witnesses who enjoy the benefits of belonging to mainstream health care organizations, but who object to the practice of blood transfusions, be given the opportunity to determine what their share would be of the annual cost of that procedure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Opt-Outs Needed at UHS | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Director of Financial Aid James S. Milleragrees, saying he thinks first-years will opt togive themselves a light workload while adjustingto the Harvard grind...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Students Answer The $2K Question | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...really up in the air right now," Wang said. "All I can do without going to surgery is rehabilitation with the Thera-Band. My shoulder has been hurting me for almost half a year, and if the rehab doesn't work out well, I might need to opt for surgery...

Author: By Nicholas D. Zeitlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Falters at ECACs | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

...hospital patients as case studies for teaching residents, but the average number of days that patients spend at Duke has dropped from 8.3 to 6.9 in the past five years. That prompted administrators to scrap plans for a nine-story inpatient addition to the 1,124-bed hospital and opt instead to construct the ambulatory surgery center, completed last June, which houses seven operating rooms for same-day surgery procedures. "We spent hours deciding [on the] best way to involve the residents there, because that's the way medicine is going--up to 70% of surgery is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Residents: The Doctors of The Future | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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