Word: presentism
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...people want their clothes to present them in as thin and as fit a manner as possible. Why else would a larger man like the guy on the airplane stuff his limbs into leg-leotards better suited for the thighs of a twelve-year-old girl? When the men who wear skinny jeans purchase their jeans, they do so merely because they can squeeze into them and enjoy the satisfaction of fitting into the smallest possible pair with the same waist size as the other pants they usually wear. (I would argue that the same is true of tight...
...snippets of a virus to both awaken and prod the immune system to churn out antibodies, may not be the best way to fight HIV. Rather than expecting the body to do all the work of first recognizing then mounting an attack against the virus, why not just present the body with a ready-made arsenal of antibodies that can home in on HIV? It's the immunological equivalent of a frozen dinner; the already cooked antibodies eliminate all the hard work of prepping and priming the immune system to do battle...
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...Keats doesn’t need me to tell you that Keats is worth reading,” Burt said. “Writing about some of the living poets I’ve written about might help the poetry of the present survive into the realm of the future...
...Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition will be holding a “dough-raiser” at Uno Chicago Grill this Friday evening, according to the Review’s Co-Editor-In-Chief, Michael T. Henderson ’11. Uno’s customers who present a coupon that will be handed out during this week will have 20 percent of their purchase donated to the “Harvard for Haiti” relief effort...