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...balance for the council. There is only so much we can do effectively given our position on campus. We are trying hard to find a middle ground that can accommodate as many interests as possible. I, personally, am doing my best to make sure that the council doesn't stray too far from an agenda that will produce meaningful results for the student body. You might see our efforts as "waffling;" I see them as an effort to provide the student body with an Undergraduate Council that meets their needs...
...balance for the council. There is only so much we can do effectively given our position on campus. We are trying hard to find a middle ground that can accommodate as many interests as possible. I, personally, am doing my best to make sure that the council doesn't stray too far from an agenda that will produce meaningful results for the student body. You might see our efforts as "waffling;" I see them as an effort to provide the student body with an Undergraduate Council that meets their needs. NOAH Z. SETON '00 April 13,1999 The writer...
...second self-published book. He carries around a legal pad so that he can jot down ideas for more. Louise DeSalvo, who is the author of Writing as a Way of Healing and teaches memoir writing at New York City's Hunter College, urges her students to note stray thoughts that bubble up from their unconscious minds while they are doing ordinary things like household chores...
...seek a diversity of partners, should the opportunities arise. Basing your answer on the behavior of women in recent times is a little like studying giraffes in a zoo and concluding they can't run. Most cultures, at least of the complex, "civilized" variety, have penalized women who stray or have taken sadistic measures to prevent that from happening in the first place, from raping or killing them to labeling them "cheap." In parts of Latin America and the Middle East, "honor killings" of wayward daughters or sisters are common and treated indulgently by the courts. In some African countries...
...polyvinyl chloride, or PVC. To make PVC pliable, manufacturers treat it with softeners known as phthalates (pronounced thalates)--loosely bound chemicals that easily leach out of the plastic. In the U.S. millions of IV bags made of PVC are used annually. If the liquids the bags contain pick up stray phthalates, they can be transfused straight into the veins of patients. Animal studies suggest that phthalates can damage the liver, heart, kidneys and testicles, and may cause cancer. "We don't know the toxicity mechanism," says Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse and a coordinator of Health Care Without Harm...