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...with any new genre, there's lots of lingo to learn in order to speak the language of pre-conception fluently. Much of it will already be familiar to women who haunt fertility Web sites and message boards. TTC = trying to conceive. Aunt Flo, or AF, refers to the monthly visitor that makes for an especially unwelcome guest when trying to get baby on board. Murkoff devotes an entire page to other acronyms, alphabetized and far more obscure: If BD is baby dance, a.k.a. sex, then DP translates as dancing partner. There's also BFN (big fat negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Baby! What to Expect Before You're Expecting | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...held yesterday, FAS IT administrators told students that the changes make it so students serve students and full-time FAS IT employees work with faculty and staff. Two UAs—who asked that their names not be printed because they were told by FAS IT not to speak to the press and did not want to damage their chances for potential future employment—said that multiple students at the meeting said they would have better understood the reductions had they been part of fiscal cutbacks. “I came away thinking that it was budgetary...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS IT Cuts Back Student User Assistants, Say Move Not Financially Motivated | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...from offering both confidential and anonymous testing to exclusively providing confidential screenings. Students who receive confidential testing have documentation of their HIV/AIDS test incorporated in their medical records, while those who receive anonymous testing do not. Rosenthal added that UHS outsources counseling services, making available non-Harvard individuals to speak with students who request anonymous testing. He said that, though UHS technically charges $10 for an anonymous screening, the hospital waives the fee. Confidential tests are always free of charge and do not include counseling for students, he noted. In response to the policy change, Linda Ellison?...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: UHS To Change Testing Protocol | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...critical, given the fact that U.S. troops are fighting Islamic militants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has also made it clear that the worsening situation in Afghanistan requires delicate negotiations and cooperation with Muslim, and nuclear-armed, Pakistan. And his reversal has one more advantage: Obama is slated to speak in Egypt - on U.S.-Muslim relations - on June 4, a week after the photographs were to have been released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Delicate Balance on National Security | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...afternoon in early May, an upscale audience gathered in Karachi to hear veteran journalist Ahmed Rashid speak on the Taliban threat. For years, Rashid has been Pakistan's Cassandra, prophesying an extremist-led doom to deaf ears. Now that the threat has become reality, he is a sought-after speaker. "I no longer say that there's a creeping Talibanization in Pakistan," he warned. "It's a galloping Talibanization." For 45 minutes, he expanded on his theme, explaining how the Pakistan Army's narrow focus on India has allowed the militant threat within the country to fester, how money that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pakistan Failed Itself | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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