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...Everybody else I knew seemed to see these encounters as feats of endurance, too. My hometown of Edinburgh, despite its size, is the insular, gossipy sort of place where everybody knows everybody else and little beyond that...
...standard-sized, individually wrapped condom of the kind put in dispensers in Canaday, Weld, and Greenough last spring measures 2 inches by 2 inches and is about a quarter-inch thick. Usually made of latex or occasionally polyurethane, the modern condom can stretch to 800 percent its normal size, if necessary—both a prophylactic and a practical joke waiting to happen. As a method of birth control, it boasts a 98 percent success rate, and when used to protect against STDs, one incurs less than a quarter of the risk one might incur through unprotected sex. As prophylactics...
Flood and professors Cott and Ulrich all stress the need for Harvard students to know women’s history in this country and at Harvard, and encourage them to think beyond their dorm rooms. If the problems facing women are brought down in size, smaller than a planet or a country, to the dimensions of a bunk bed, or a final club library, it’s easy to get tripped up, easy to be trivialized, easy to oversimplify. Can an exploration of the influence of the patriarchy over women’s stunted liberation (sexual and otherwise...
...fall season, many of the football players’ hearts had accumulated up to 12 percent more muscle mass due to a thickening of their heart walls. While the mass of the rowers’ hearts did not increase as significantly, the chambers of their hearts increased in size. The Harvard researchers attributed the different forms of heart growth to the emphasis on endurance in the sport of crew as opposed to the short, but intense bursts of energy required in football. “There’s a lot of explosiveness with the drills that...
...once have been king of the predators, but a new study shows that the reptilian giant may be no match for other dinosaurs and vertebrates when it comes to the size...