Word: track
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Schools from all over New England descended on Cambridge as the Crimson hosted its annual Harvard Invitational track meet. Though many of the Crimson athletes stayed off the track to act as scorekeepers and concession stand workers, Harvard challenged the invitees with its speed, agility and strength...
...essay: nothing I write in such factual pieces will be as true as my fiction. What is appropriately important to her is emotional truth, words that somehow resonate inside the reader. Hemingway used to assure himself that if he could write one true sentence, he was on the right track: it is this kind of truth that is meaningful to the writer of fiction, truth to the spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction which Gordimer attempts. It is almost pointless to write...
...Which brings me to a final point: call before you go. These spaces are lively but unstable and tend to operate improvisationally. It takes a little effort to track them down, but most are well worth the investigation...
...effort to combat HIV ran right into privacy concerns Thursday, and gay advocacy groups aren't happy with the results. Looking to better track the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, the Centers for Disease Control ordered states to require that all HIV patients register their names for entry into a national network of databases. That has gay rights groups more than a little alarmed. The problem, the groups say, is that infected people could be less likely to seek treatment if they know they have to give their names. And while there are similar requirements for most communicable...
...feds already keep track of people with AIDS, but feel that's no longer enough, since advances in treatment mean that a decreasing proportion of HIV-infected individuals contract full-blown AIDS. Compiling a database of the infected makes it easier to track (and prevent) the spread of the disease. But HIV/AIDS, once considered the "gay plague," still carries a stigma, and that could scare many HIV-positive people away from putting their names in a database. They may not be reassured by the CDC recommendation that states make it a felony to release the names of HIV patients. "This...