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...from the 1930s is a charming, if mechanically obsolete, relic. On the other hand, a technology developed 70 years ago to establish levels of tar and nicotine in cigarettes is still in use in federal laboratories - and determines the ingredient labels on today's cigarettes. And as a report in this week's issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute contends, that creaky cigarette "smoking machine" may be responsible for the dissemination of serious consumer misinformation. Why do smokers still believe they are "healthier" when they smoke Marlboro Lights as opposed to Reds? Because the Federal Trade Commission...
Harvard junior center Melissa Johnson was a member of that Tar Heel team that felled Allison Feaster '98 and the Crimson...
...unlike Melissa, who spent her first two years of NCAA eligibility playing for the Tar Heels, Sarah will be spending a full four years in a Crimson uniform...
...self-awareness and ample humour, but the real star of the show is firstyear Kathleen Stetson. As the unwillingly betrothed Josephine, Stetson is simply luminous. From the melancholic torch songs of "Sorry Her Lot" and "The Hours Creep on Apace" to her puckish asides before and during "Refrain Audacious Tar", she has a positively radiant stage presence, extracting pathos in being the leashed Captain's daughter, alternately revelling in distinctly un-ladylike defiance. The chorus does well too, small choreographed numbers being infused with refinement on behalf of the women, and gangly indelicacy among the sailors...
That's the distance she traveled when she transferred from North Carolina to Harvard in 1998, a little more than a year after she and her Tar Heel team had beaten Harvard 78-53 in the first round of the 1997 NCAA tournament...