Word: peering
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...Harvard received a C for HIV and STD testing and failed in two categories: condom availability and sex advice column in a campus publication. Contraception advice and availability won Harvard its only A, leaving Bs for the remaining three categories—health services website, sexual assault counseling, and peer counseling and outreach events. Condoms have long been available for free at University Health Services (UHS) and in upperclassmen houses. UHS and the student-run Community Health Initiative began providing free condoms to freshmen last May, before the Trojan survey results were published. Harvard, however, still received...
...Douglass respectfully declined to be interviewed because, as he wrote in an e-mail, “the goals of science would be best served by focusing on publishing our final results through the peer- reviewed process in scientific journals...
...being listened to, etc. But I’m not a spy. I usually go to the bigger functions or else just hang out with my friends...but at the same time, it’s hard to walk the line between being professional and being a peer. Meetings with deans versus hanging out with my twenty-or-so year-old peers...
...idea. Professor Toni Falbo of the University of Texas has researched the subject for 30 years and, she says, found no disadvantages to children without siblings. That's because what counts is not a traditional family structure but the opportunity to form relationships with adults and contemporaries. "Parent and peer contact can compensate for the lack of siblings," says Falbo. Parents of only children are ingenious in developing family structures to provide that contact. A child's best friend can often be co-opted as an honorary sibling; or the extended family can be plundered for playmates and more adult...
...pondered the implications of this peculiar phenomenon this Tuesday evening as I began to hear the customary drunken wails from nearby Dewolfe Street—which an illustrious peer of mine encouraged by hollering back from her Quincy window. I was reminded of the biological curiosity of the peacock’s tail: what is the evolutionary advantage to carrying around a cumbersome dangling appendage...