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...sucked in. Following Boston sports picked up the slack, and made it so that I could finally fit in, even if I wasn’t a full convert until senior year (I actually rooted for the Raiders in the Snow Bowl against the Pats). It took me a while, but by senior year I had shed what little loyalty I had had to my native city. Until that point, I hadn’t felt a full part of the Brookline or Boston communities. Though I had immersed myself in its athletic teams, student government, local hospitals and other...
...another company pick up the slack? Not right away. Flu vaccines differ from year to year, depending on which influenza strains are circulating. It takes three to four months to culture the right flu viruses in chicken eggs. Aventis may ramp up production, but the next batch wouldn't be available until February or March...
...Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...ALEX SLACK...
...course, it’s only fair to cut the Bush administration a little slack on this one. Formulating a serious proposal to make America energy independent anytime in the foreseeable future is no easy task. The fact is that there is a finite and rapidly diminishing quantity of oil in the earth, and the United States simply doesn’t have much of it—about 3 percent, to be exact—even counting the Arctic. As our energy consumption continues to increase, we will be forced to import ever-greater quantities...