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...vaccine is not a panacea, however. "Right now the [immunization] schedule is not really user-friendly," admits Dr. Vijay Sikand of Tufts University School of Medicine, one of the participating physicians. "You have to remember to come back 11 months after the second shot." Nor did the panel recommend, pending further testing, use by pregnant women, people with chronic arthritis or youngsters under 18--a group with one of the highest risks of exposure. So even if the FDA gives Lymerix a quick O.K., it won't be of much help against this summer's tick onslaught...
...department] can recommend someone for tenure, but, as we saw in the Masten case, it cannot possibly predict how likely the person is actually to get tenure," says Damrosch, who is also Bernbaum professor of literature...
Finally, I highly recommend Sam Spade, a free set of software tools that helps track spam from phony addresses. The program--written by computer engineer Steve Atkins, who has brought down hundreds of spammers--can be downloaded from www.blighty.com/products/spade A simpler, Web version is at www. blighty.com/spam/spade.html The documentation that comes with Sam Spade is an excellent explainer on the arcane world of Net messaging. Spammers, beware...
...Harvard, once here, our undergraduate experiences are remarkably conformist. This may be part of the College's mission, yet the lack of acknowledgment among students of this normalization strikes me now as I leave it for a year. Look around. People gather to watch the same shows and recommend the same Cores to one another. The mail centers overflow with piles of the same catalogs. Doesn't anyone find this problematic...
...promise of Viagra is its discretion and ease of use. Doctors recommend taking the pill an hour before sex, which might lead to some wastage among overly optimistic users but shouldn't otherwise interfere too greatly with the normal course of coital events. An even greater advantage, or at least a more naturalistic one: unlike the injectable drugs, which when efficacious produce an erection regardless of context (famously proved by Dr. Giles Brindley, a leading British impotence researcher, who once demonstrated a successful experimental treatment by dropping his trousers in front of hundreds of astonished colleagues at a conference), Viagra...