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...Reading Period looms before you, and the holed-up-in-your-room-slash-Lamont-24/7 thing is starting to get old. And even worse, uninspiring. Break out of your Cambridge bubble, Yoda say. Embrace a new study space, you must. Here are the best alternatives FM found...
...Reading Period. Brain waves ebb and flow, intellectual juices churn, and students abandon happiness and societal notions of hygiene to write essays and study for exams. Where better to have this scholarly experience than Lamont Library, where during Reading Period, students tend to camp out for days at a time...
...think long-term, folks. There’s no need to cut someone in line at the Café, snub somebody of a seat, or be generally rude to your peers. Everybody is going through a rough patch, and you don’t want Reading Period to destroy your reputation for semesters to come. Buck up! It’ll be over soon...
Catching the bus became a daily struggle, but my battle had just begun. In high school, I was late to first period, even the rallies I helped run. Friends would complain about delayed dinners, movie dates, and missed breakfasts. I would experience remorse on each occasion, but its effects would fade by the next day as I hit the snooze button or lost track of time. Although I knew it was wrong to keep people waiting and take up their time, I thought that others found the flaw endearing rather than annoying. Often, I would compensate by buying everyone bagels?...
After a long period of decline, TB incidence has risen dramatically since the 1980s, despite the improvement of sanitary conditions, the development of anti-TB drugs in the 1950s, and the introduction of the World Health Organization’s directly-observed treatment short-course program for more effective treatment. In 1993, the WHO declared TB a global-health emergency, setting ambitious goals which it later conceded could not be met by 2003 or possibly even 2015. That is to say, the consequences from the years of inadequate treatment and low attention to disease control in resource-poor regions have...