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...newly-reclaimed word “queer” at the family dinner table only to be stared back at with doe-eyed gawks. Perhaps this is Harvard’s curious way of preparing naive bumpkins for ideological persuasion on provincial battle fronts. But it’s peculiar that while BGLTSA unflinchingly welcomes a group called the “Lesbian Avengers”—I’m not sure what they’re here to avenge—a handful of “blue states” are debating gay marriage...
...Class size is obviously an issue, and we’re obviously aware of the fact,” Harris says. “But you have this peculiar paradox where students complain about these big classes [but still take them...
Harvard’s alcohol policy for first-years is a blend of old-school, heavy-handed discipline and paternalistic patronizing. Such a peculiar mix has this singular consequence: Proctors expect students to behave like adults, but treat them like children...
From there Ross takes his mission higher - into the mountains. He builds a "reliquary," as he calls it, of postcards and liquor store stand-up displays of bikini-clad women. He blasts Hank Williams to attract converts. A magnetic personality, by degrees Ross's behavior becomes more peculiar. He and his troop stop using words and don't appear in daylight too often. Eventually their teeth turn sharp and canine-like and they spend time digging up bones from an old graveyard. Hence the steak Gareth is bringing for Ross. The snowglobe seems to be an attempt to amuse...
...simple arithmetic isn't a strong enough argument for such an astonishing proposition, so the biologists conducted several experiments to test it. In one, they looked for and found cells that appeared to be undergoing meiosis, the type of cell division peculiar to sperm and egg cells. They also detected the activity of a gene involved in that process. Then they dosed the mice with busulfan, a cancer drug known to kill the stem cells that produce sperm. Three weeks later, there were virtually no eggs left, suggesting that the drug had found a similar stem-cell target...