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...helped connect curiosity seekers with BDSM organizations. Doc and Surri, for instance, help lead a North Carolina group that started less than a year ago but already has nearly 700 people on its e-mail list. The calendar of BDSM social events now includes gatherings for every imaginable subgroup--everything from the International Deaf Leather Contest (scheduled in Dallas in August) to the Black Rose convention in the Washington area, a yearly weekend of workshops and parties that draws...
...Equality of Women at Harvard (CEWH), which evolved out of our 35th reunion. Part of the class discussion that year was whether Harvard was as sexist as when we were in college. We were charged with trying to research this and report back at the 40th reunion. That subgroup became quite a little family...
Thus it was no surprise that AIDSVAX did not prevent infection overall among 5,108 high-risk men and 309 high-risk women. What was surprising was that it seemed to offer some protection--how much is in dispute--for a subgroup of 498 black and Asian subjects. That does not mean there's new hope for Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is worst; this vaccine doesn't target the strain most common there. But scientists know genetics affects immune response. That may have played a role in this trial and will be explicitly tested in newer trials...
...gender. That is counterintuitive to the global-branding ideal that pervades advertising, as well as to the notion that the bigger the brand, the more efficient the marketing. The sub-branding is paying off, says Yoon Soo Kim, manager of KTF's Internet marketing team, with each subgroup reporting higher average revenue per user and lower churn rates than the standard KTF brand...
...report was compiled by the Academic Affairs Committee, a student subgroup of the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations, many of whose members are active in the ethnic studies movement...