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...mercifully uncommon cluster headache, so named because an attack typically repeats itself, often daily, with each episode lasting anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half. Cluster headaches usually strike their victims, generally men, at fixed times of the year. The pain is so searing that they are also known as suicide headaches. Immediate treatment with oxygen and migraine drugs given intravenously can sometimes provide relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Headaches | 5/8/2007 | See Source »

...students prepared to gather in the Yard Tuesday for a sixth day of a hunger strike in support of higher wages for security guards, the protesters announced that one of the strikers had been hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hunger Striker Hospitalized; Labor Protests Gain Momentum as University Pledges Audit | 5/8/2007 | See Source »

...posting on the Stand for Security Web log Tuesday afternoon said Castro was continuing to fast. "Javier is on Day 6 of the hunger strike," the posting signed by Michael Gould-Wartofsky '07 said. "Although he has received saline through an IV, he has refused food and as of right now is continuing with the hunger strike...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hunger Striker Hospitalized; Labor Protests Gain Momentum as University Pledges Audit | 5/8/2007 | See Source »

Imagine that you’ve found the perfect buy. It’s down more than it should be, and you’re perfectly poised to strike and make a couple of percentage points when the market adjusts...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trading Stocks—And Late for Class | 5/7/2007 | See Source »

...Perhaps most easily taken for granted, however, is the basic safety that we all enjoy—the safety provided by the security guards employed by AlliedBarton Security Services (AlliedBarton), to which Harvard outsources most of its security needs. Recently, student members of Stand For Security began a hunger strike to call attention to the plight of AlliedBarton security workers on campus, who unionized under the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) last December and are now negotiating their first contract through SEIU. While we agree with many of Stand For Security’s aims and its general spirit...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Veritas et Securitas | 5/7/2007 | See Source »

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