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BOSTON—As the night editor for today’s issue of The Crimson, I can state with great confidence that what appeared on the cover of the Washington Post’s Democratic National Convention supplement this past Monday is a proofreader’s worst nightmare...
...Here, unlike in Yunnan, HIV spread not through illegal behavior but through blood donation. In the early 1990s, the Chinese leadership launched a blood drive and paid donors for their plasma. It was a program intended to benefit all Chinese?the poor by giving them a way to supplement their income, and the rest of China by replenishing the national blood banks' dangerously low stocks. "It was like a poverty-relief program," says a Henan resident who gave plasma in 1993 and became infected. Through campaigns in the villages and schools, the government encouraged rural farmers and factory workers...
...both Michalak and Verba emphasized that the OCP websites are not meant to replace the printed word, but to supplement...
...plans to launch his bi-monthly magazine in September and hopes to supplement the University’s official alum magazine, Harvard Magazine, by profiling alums and publishing “news of interest to the alumni of Harvard University,” according to an undated private placement memorandum. The memo, obtained by The Crimson in March, said that Harvard Magazine “reads more like a collection of press releases and academic papers...
...calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat--if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true for humans: early on, we learn to sense how calorie-packed a food is--by its sweetness and viscosity, for example--which...