Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upperclass students who have survived Freshman Week say the friendships made then don't always last. It's more important to meet new people, and to be open when others meet you. Self-help talk? Maybe, but it works...
Given these depressing facts, it might be tempting to give up on college altogether and start an Internet company. Why an Internet company? You're at Harvard--the answer to that question should be self-evident...
...cancer is one of the least deadly of malignancies: if you include the most advanced stages of disease, it has a five-year survival rate of 95%--and for cases detected early, the rate is 100%. For that reason, many experts suggest that men (of all races) should perform self-examinations monthly, starting at age 15. The best time to do this is after a warm shower, when the scrotum is relaxed and soft. The danger signs include a hard, painless lump attached to the testicles or, less commonly, testicular enlargement or scrotal swelling. Probing their testicles, even gently...
...family's military tradition but chafes against authority. As a child, McCain displays a petulance that leads him, when angry, to hold his breath until he blacks out. As a student, McCain recounts, "I grew more determined to assert my crude individualism." At the Naval Academy he is a self-described "arrogant, undisciplined, insolent midshipman" who graduates near the bottom of his class...
...adversity breeds character and replaces selfishness with esprit de corps. Even now, McCain, 63, seems unable to forgive himself for his "failure" to resist longer before signing a confession, declaring himself a "black criminal." "In prison," he writes, "where my cherished independence was mocked and assaulted, I found my self-respect in a shared fidelity to my country...