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...this august institution to good use. While many schools have abandoned requirements that students read the seminal works of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and other dead white males, Harvard requires one Shakespeare course and two pre-18th century classes of its English concentrators. The weekly Lowell House teas where students sip hot cider and tea and munch on scones, the formal dinners with professors and members of senior common rooms—remnant of an older Harvard—compel us to take time from our busy schedules and private intellectual musings to chat, to remember what it?...
...Periodically we’d make a field trip to library cubicles at Radcliffe on Friday nights and sip on Southern Comfort. If we didn’t see a streaker traipse through the book stacks, we’d wrap it up and head for Casablanca or some other watering hole in Harvard Square...
...Sip away tooth decay? Well, maybe, if the drink is tea, scientists reported at last week's meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. In a preliminary study--financed by the tea industry--volunteers swished either black tea or lukewarm water in their mouth. An analysis of their saliva showed that tea inhibits the growth of tooth-decaying bacteria and reduces their tendency to form sticky clumps. In addition, tea drinkers' saliva contains less enamel-eroding acid. Does that translate into fewer cavities? Probably. In previous clinical trials, green tea was shown to prevent cavities, and these new findings lead...
This series marks the third time Bourque has made it to the finals, and this very well could be his last and best chance at taking a sip from the championship chalice...
VIRTUAL PUB CRAWLS Just Logging On for a Quick Drink Londoners beware! the next time you nip down to the pub for a quick screen break you might well find that you're actually broadcast live on the Web as you sip your illicit pint. Now suspicious spouses have an easy way to verify the age-old "working late" excuse: just log on to www.viewpub.com. British leisure giant Whitbread has teamed up with Web design firm Viewpub to install webcams in six of its London establishments. They show live pictures on the Web from 6 p.m. until closing time every...