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...introduced to society so that everyone knows she is now wife material. It generally happens during a woman's first year of college. However, most social beings have spent many a night doing the Harvard social scene. Does a woman's ability to romp around late at night render this custom less necessary? Perhaps. Even so, there is no shortage of Harvard debutantes. Unfortunately, as debutante balls have been the victims of quite extensive criticism, last names are omitted to protect those sources who have attended deb balls as either debs themselves, friends or escorts (the guys conned into being...

Author: By Emily N. Tabak, | Title: COME OUT, COME OUT! | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...There is no doubt that some scholars, although not necessarily at Harvard, believe that rational choice has proven to be a master key that can unify the discourse and render it more scientific," Hall says. "Despite my own interest in rational choice analysis I'm skeptical of that view. It has yet to be proven, and that's why I attach great value to scholarly pluralism, to debate among a wide range of views...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AREA STUDIES vs. RATIONAL CHOICE | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

Well, the Web itself is awfully big, but XML may render such breathless sentences prescient. Here's the pitch: Websites are built using markup languages--sets of rules for displaying information on a Web page. Today's standard language, HTML (hypertext markup language), was chosen at the dawn of the Web for its simplicity and the ease with which it combined pictures with plain text. This very simplicity, though, makes the Web in its current form a very tough place to do business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEEPING TABS ONLINE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Suppose you are at risk of a genetic disease that threatens to render you unrecognizable to yourself. Physically, you realize, the disease will slowly erode your body to an incontinent mass of uncontrollable jerks and twitches. Mentally, it will eat away at your brain cells, impeding your ability to remember, pay attention, reason. And emotionally, it will blacken your days with irritability and all-consuming depression. Worst of all, you know that the disease cannot be prevented or stalled, arrested or cured. To learn that you have the offending gene is to receive a virtual death sentence that leaves only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEING THE FUTURE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...Correspondent Christine Gorman reports, the comparison won't wash, "because there is still an open question as to what the effect of AZT in utero is." Not to mention that HIV can also be passed from mother to child by breast-feeding ? common enough in the Third World to render AZT treatment futile. While the researchers' ethics may be in question, the CDC is still far away from Tuskegee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm Over U.S. AIDS 'Experiment' | 9/18/1997 | See Source »

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