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Riding high off of a short set that afternoon at the Virgin Records Megastore on Newbury Street, the Pittsburgh-based sextet exuded energy. Pulsing tribal rhythms, delicate vocal interplay and uninhibited dancing captivated and inspired an already animated crowd...
Formed in Pittsburgh in 1988 after front man Mike Glabicki (then still in high school) returned from a trip to South America, the band self-released their first album, Cruel Sun, in 1990. With their consistently formidable live performances and their support of such groups as Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace and Amnesty International, the band gained a faithful grassroots following. With the smash hit “Send Me On My Way,” their 1994 album, When I Woke, was certified multi-platinum...
...when I was 38," says Claudia Morehead, 47, a California insurance lawyer who is finally pregnant, using donor eggs. Even among fertility specialists, "it was shocking to us that IVF didn't work so well after age 42," admits Dr. Sarah Berga, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "The early '90s, to my mind, was all about how shocked we were that we couldn't get past this barrier." But even as doctors began to try to get the word out, they ran into resistance of all kinds...
Last Sept. 19, Humair Ahmed, a University of Pittsburgh student, was returning home from class when he was repeatedly punched and kicked by a white male who reportedly yelled, “Are you from Afghanistan?” The assailant then threatened to kill the Pakistani American student. Prosecutors charged the suspect with ethnic intimidation, threats and simple assault...
Then there is the obvious danger of disease. A study of high school alcohol-dependent students published this month by the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center found that 1 in 5 girls was infected with the herpes virus. Drunken women also suffer disproportionately from rape and sexual assault. "[Women] walking back to campus intoxicated wear a neon sign on their back: Mug me. Victimize me," says Georgetown's Kilcarr. Packaged like that, the antidrinking message has some bite. But for much of the past decade, many colleges have aimed their prevention campaigns exclusively at men. One favorite strategy has been...