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...account of the outbreak that would take 50,000 lives before it was done. "Imagine the terror and panic," he writes, "if a biological attack killed 4,000 otherwise healthy New Yorkers over a 20-day period. Living amid cholera in 1854 was like living in a world where urban tragedies on that scale happened week after week...
...special, a bad haircut, and guaranteed uneasiness). 4) For your friend at Boston University: “How to Transfer to the College of Your Choice” from the Harvard Book Store, $12.95. 5) For that nerdy perv in your entryway: a book of Sudo-Fuk-U from Urban Outfitters, $12.99. 6) For your mom: a Harvard Mug from the Harvard Shop (for the fourth year in a row), $9.00. 7) For your alumnus father: a strand of flashing Christmas lights from CVS to adorn that Harvard diploma of his, $9.99. 8) For the fashionista: a $15 gift certificate...
...student’s departure from an isolated cattle ranch and alfalfa farm near Death Valley, Calif., to an urban campus is, by definition, radical...
...Sept. 4 New Yorker article raised the question of class at the college, suggesting that the school consists of primarily white, upper-middle-class boys. According to Rosenblum, the school pulls primarily from the East and West Coasts as well as from urban centers...
...urban legends of our society is the supposedly growing trend of "boomerangs" - youngish adults who move back in with their parents. Nearly every news outlet including TIME has dug up some slob to represent this trend: a college grad couch potato who plays Grand Theft Auto all day, refusing to take a low-paying starter job or move out into the real world. Last week both USA Today and ABC's World News Tonight piled on the ridicule, thanks to yet another book on quarterlifers in a quagmire...