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TIME: What's been the toll the controversy with the gay community has taken...
...also pretty satisfied with the proximity of Harvard to my lifelong home. While hundreds of my classmates frantically book plane tickets to get between home and school, my only transportation cost is the $1 toll on the Tobin Bridge. I hang out in the same Harvard Square shops and restaurants I visited in high school, and a home-cooked meal is only a T ride away. When I moved into the Yard two years ago, I figured that the transition from suburban Boston to urban Cambridge would be an easy one. But culture shock hit harder than I expected...
...Napster, for whom the lawyers toll. They toll for thee. The Recording Industry Association of America, otherwise known as the RIAA, otherwise known as the music industry's Powers That Be, is rolling out the evidence that free-music enabler Napster is bringing down the American Way, one $15 CD at a time. According to a study conducted by retail-store tracker SoundScan as a supporting brief to the RIAA's copyright-infringement suit against Napster, sales at stores within a mile of Wired magazine's "Top 40 Wired Colleges" - and those near colleges that have had problems with Napster...
...pattern, if there is one, is elusive. For example, New York City's murder rate is up this year, just as it was last year. But the 1999 total of 671 murders pales in comparison with 1990, when the toll hit 2,245. What goes down so dramatically must come back up, experts say, even if only a little bit. "It's like going on a diet. You can lose most of the fat in the earliest stages; then it gets harder to lose more, or even retain the loss," says Eli Silverman, a criminal-justice professor at John...
Even then, don't jump to hasty conclusions. In middle age, many things can cause memory loss or mental fuzziness, to say nothing of confused thinking--menopause, for example, whose effects can be eased with estrogen-replacement therapy. Also, keep in mind (remember?) that age takes a very normal toll on what psychologists call processing speed--the rapidity with which you can summon up the names of people and places. Our brains, in any case, have evolved with a certain built-in forgetfulness, lest they become hopelessly cluttered with useless information...