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With the lack of affordable housing in Cambridge, the city needs to free up more space in commercial sites for residential use to create a "higher ratio of housing units to jobs," the CDD reported...
...shadow of WWII also touched the women of Radcliffe. If nothing else, some graduates remember with a smile, the gender ratio on campus was very much in favor of the "'Cliffe dwellers," as they were often called...
...shadow of WWII also touched the women ofRadcliffe. If nothing else, some graduatesremember with a smile, the gender ratio on campuswas very much in favor of the "'Cliffe dwellers,"as they were often called...
Before blood screening became mandatory, most older people got HIV from transfusions. But since such transmissions have been all but eliminated, medical workers are being forced to confront the fact that seniors are getting infected primarily during sex. Promiscuity is common in senior centers, where the ratio of women to men averages 7 to 1. Since fear of pregnancy is no longer a concern, many seniors don't use condoms. And Viagra has added more fuel to an already volatile mix. Physically fit single men, dubbed "condominium Casanovas," often flit from one woman to the next, sometimes passing along AIDS...
...drivers aren't praying, they're fasting. Who knew they were an offshoot of the Franciscan monks? As I'm talking to Kyle Petty, the ponytailed shaman among NASCAR drivers, he goes into the refrigerator of his trailer for an energy bar and makes sure it has the right ratio of protein to carbohydrates. "In the trailer park where all the drivers live in their coaches, if you're out of skim milk or tuna, you know what door to knock on, because you know who's on what diet...