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...caffeine and Vitamin C? I’m sorry, I shouldn’t be angry. I understand your needs too. I just can’t believe you might not be there when I need you most. I’m not sure I can write my thesis, spend late nights at The Crimson, and stress about my future without you. Sure, Lamont will soon have a café where procrastinating first-years can update their MySpace.com page while spilling coffee on the reserve books. But the whole point of a “coffee break?...
...rises. So too do the ranks of heterosexual and single-sex couples living without children who now - at 49% of households - represent the most common form of family unit across Europe. Some have watched their kids leave the nest, others will never have children, but all are likely to spend the biggest chunk of their life in the company of their partner only. Simply put, the definition of family is increasingly flexible, its constituent parts ever more diverse. While the family was once seen as a form of fate - it chose you - it's now increasingly something that Europeans choose...
...Recognizable Patterns of Human Deformity, a tome which still sits in Neonatal Intensive Care Units for aiding in visual diagnosis. So many disease states a re invisible to the onlooker. An infant born with a liver disease or heart disease may require extensive surgery, a premature baby may spend months in a neonatal intensive care unit and have lifelong medical and developmental disabilities, but they don't stand out in the kindergarten class photograph...
...years ago, it was a challenge for websites to get people to spend time for pleasure in front of a computer screen. "Your problem will be solved actuarially," a computer-sciences professor assured a group of Web pioneers, and sure enough, it was. Now the problem is to get people under 50 or so to pick up a newspaper. Damp or encased in plastic bags, or both, and planted in the bushes outside where it's cold, full of news that is cold too because it has been sitting around for hours, the home-delivered newspaper is an archaic object...
...Other Two-Wheeler I read with interest your recent report about the innovative Segway scooter [Aug. 21]. It is without a doubt an elegant and stylish invention, but I do not understand why I should spend nearly $5,000 on something that has no advantage over a good bicycle, which is inexpensive and environmentally friendly and provides good exercise, with no battery to charge. Alberto Fumagalli Carugate, Italy...