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...Woody Allen classic Sleeper, Allen's character, a health food store owner, awakes in the future to discover that everything considered bad for you - namely smoking and eating deep-fried foods - was actually beneficial to your health. What with all our present-day scientific "revelations" about what's bad (or good) for us, I've always believed it was only a matter of time before the premise of Sleeper began to materialize in the real world...
Typically, developers must explain potential environmental impact before the state grants approval for projects. Under the new procedure, however, Harvard will not have to immediately present a comprehensive report on the Allston project’s total environmental impact. Instead, the University will be allowed to detail the potential impact of each individual project over the next 20 years...
...remember all the wonderful things but you also remember all the things that were scary. We are an urban campus. We are not a closed campus.”Still, many Currierites have not taken kindly to the new security protocol, which now requires a guard to be present from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. every day.“The fear is that these changes aren’t just the end of it, that they’re indicative of the House masters’ position in general, that they’re going to try to change...
...meeting of residents advertised with a note pinned to the bus stop, and conducted on the street: It's purpose was to get rid of the previous chairman, denounced as a drunk, although when it came time to pick a replacement, there were no candidates. Eventually, the present chairman - whom most locals know only by his title, not his name - was nominated by a friend of his. When he failed to decline the nomination, the relieved locals hastily concluded their exercise in democracy...
...been afflicted with colony-collapse disorder (CCD)--the term for the syndrome wiping out the bees--and decoded the genetic material inside them. In a paper published in Science Express on Sept. 6, the group reported that one pathogen-- the recently discovered Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV)--was present in more than 90% of the samples, indicating that IAPV might be at least a good marker for CCD, if not a direct cause...