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Usually it is the President's side of the family that attracts unwanted publicity--Roger Clinton, Neil Bush and Billy Carter come to mind. But in the two-for-one Clinton presidency, the First Lady's brothers have joined in the tradition. Some of their misadventures are known. Now TIME...
Laser procedures to remove unwanted hair have grown rapidly in popularity since being approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1995, but many doctors still consider them experimental. Lasers zap the hair follicle underneath the skin, thus retarding future growth. Whether lasers can remove hair permanently, however, is still...
Harvard's College Alcohol Study has used the five/four drink measure because students who drink those amounts account for almost all of the alcohol problems on campus. Those who binge drink more than once a week account for only one-fifth of all college students, but consume two-thirds of...
Cockroach sightings, seemingly concentrated in Eliot and Lowell Houses, have prompted numerous visits to undergraduate rooms by University-employed exterminators and have left some students feeling nervous about these unwanted guests.
Fewer offenses, Donohue and Levitt point out, are being perpetrated by people ages 24 and younger--those born after abortion was legalized. Increased abortions, they add, reduced the number of "unwanted" children born to teenage, unmarried and poor women--children considered most likely to commit crimes as adults.