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...news alarmed coffee drinkers, triggered news stories on television and in the papers, inspired a number of bad jokes during the coffee break. ("Good till the last drop.") Some people switched to tea or milk. Others felt guilty as they went on enjoying coffee as usual. But after the report was released the price of coffee on the futures market did not drop. It went up slightly. Critics of the study, including the National Coffee Association, representing a $7 billion-a-year industry, point out several drawbacks in the study. The hospitalized patients were simply asked how many cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coffee Nerves | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...chance, you expect to get some sleep or--God forbid--do some homework, you've got another thing coming. You'll quickly learn that studying and sleeping are impossible when a dozen nocturnal proctees are playing ultimate frisbee in the halls till sunrise...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Haven't Had Enough, Huh? | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...mental giants, but some of their other vital parts are overactive too. A Central Square hooker complained in August of last year that she had been inundated by 16-year-old clients. "I won't take their money: any kid on mine do that, and I'd beat him till he hurt...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The City in the Off Season | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

Last night in Yale's Payne-Whitney gymnasium, though, things got a bit sticky toward the end, and the Crimson had to wait till overtime to dump the Elis...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Fleming (34) Leads Crimson To 78-75 Thriller Over Yale | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

...Nicaraguan situation shows what "liberation" by the left means. The Marxist Sandinistas have taken over all military forces, muzzled the bishops, postponed elections till God-knows-when, and have turned Nicaragua into an instrument of Cuban and Soviet foreign policy...

Author: By Hilary Kinal, | Title: Moderation Between Extremes | 3/5/1981 | See Source »

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