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...coughing, food handling by people with infections such as hepatitis, sharing utensils, or sharing needles,” writes Gharib. Popular Science Magazine seconds Gharib, confirming that illnesses like influenza and strep throat can’t make the leap from the seat to your immune system. Your germ-phobe mom wasn’t totally wrong, though. The New York University Medical Center’s website lists “toilet seats” among the risk factors for pediculosis pubis, commonly known as pubic lice. Don’t let this news get you crabby?...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Treacherous Toilets | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

Chalk it up as yet another one of those choice campus locales where I do not want to find myself on a dark and stormy Sunday night; Lamont Reading Room is not for the faint-hearted. Lest this be immediately dismissed as the hyperbole of an avowed library-phobe, and in the interests of a fair trial, here is a comprehensive list of Lamont’s redeeming features: those heavenly chairs which sink faster than the latest Bennifer venture and, like Gigli, are guaranteed to induce snores in under 15 minutes; the comfortingly kitsch circa 1973 aesthetic...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, | Title: The Lure of Lamont | 4/6/2004 | See Source »

Cross Ulysses with Herman's Head, and you might get this inventive "stream of consciousness," six-episode comedy. A thirtyish commitment-phobe takes a job teaching English in Japan and has three days to break up with his girlfriend, quit his job and sell everything he owns. But his friends, his family--even his stuff--are not ready to let him go before he harrowingly confronts every neurosis and shortcoming of his soon-to-be-former life, through the sometimes labored but often quite funny fantasy sequences in this mini-epic of indecision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Leaves For The Orient | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...teenage drug abuser who has matured into a confident young actress) have garnered praise for their performances in the current girl-bonding hit Boys on the Side. Critics have also been smitten by that other winsome (albeit unrelated) Parker, Sarah Jessica, who plays a witty copywriter and commitment-phobe in Miami Rhapsody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENERATION X-CELLENT | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

...October 8-9, December 3-4) and Dance Circle's Dorothy Hershkowitz (January 6-8) offer more traditional style modern dance. Concert Dance Co. sticks to well-done classics, and this season will add Anna Sokolow's Session for Six to their repertoire of Doris Humphrey, Bill Evans and Phobe Neville. Good for taking a friend who's never seen modern dance...

Author: By Bethamie Horowitz and Susan A. Manning, S | Title: dance | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

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