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Jason B. McCoy ’08, this year’s campus life fellow, or “fun czar,” said he agreed that the trend in the past has been toward tightening restrictions but that he does not think this year follows that pattern...
...behavior, specifically from store owners who have told him there is prostitution in the area. In April, the city announced that the 2008 homelessness census showed a 10 percent increase in the number of people without homes in Cambridge. The upswing in local homelessness coincides with a wider state trend. The Associated Press reports that there are about 1,800 families currently in Massachussetts homeless shelters and that the number of homeless families living in motels in the state jumped from 17 last September to 588 at the beginning of this month. Beginning in 1999, the state?...
...recently companies began unleashing a barrage of unfamiliar products packed with extreme amounts of caffeine. The trend started with super-caffeinated energy drinks in the '90s, but more recently scientists and marketers have created caffeinated foods and even personal-hygiene products. In the past five years, according to the market research giant Mintel, firms have launched at least 126 caffeinated food products for sale in the U.S. Twenty-nine such products have been introduced this year alone. The offerings include things like Morning Spark oatmeal, NRG potato chips and - my favorite, if only for the brazen attempt to draw kids...
...state leadership in Tallahassee earlier this month to regroup. Sources say it yielded few solutions. A big GOP headache is Florida's ultra-fluid demographics. The state has one of the nation's largest hoards of independent voters, almost one-fifth of the electorate, EMS, and the centrist trend is creeping into once solid GOP bastions like Sarasota. Crossover Republicans like Geyer are news; but Sarasota Democrats can be just as averse to straight-ticket life. David Grain, 46, an African-American Democrat and the millionaire founder of Grain Communications, is a top fund raiser for Obama but also...
...jostled for the lead throughout the match, constantly exchanging plays and games. Although Harvard could not build an offensive rhythm in the first stanza, it had little trouble slipping into its usual role of battling from behind from there on. “It’s becoming a trend actually,” McKinley said. “We like it when we need [it], but it’s one we definitely don’t want to have to use it all the time. We like to make it a little challenging on ourselves?...