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...just waking up. YOU DO WHAT? When people ask Waterman about her extracurriculars, she tells them that she rows and does ROTC. No, really, they say. They don’t believe her. “It’s always like, you’re in ROTC? The vast majority of people are surprised,” Waterman says. This may partly be a response to her love of pink, she says. But the other three Harvard women in Army ROTC often get similar reactions. Many Harvard students seem to have preconceived notions about the army; they...
Gardasil protects against four types of human papillomavirus, which account for the vast majority of the 500,000 cervical-cancer cases and the 32 million new cases of genital warts around the world each year. Last fall Merck released encouraging results from its clinical trial in which 755 healthy sexually active women were injected with the protective shots three times over six months and none developed precancerous growths in the cervix after four years...
...newspaper someone tosses into the driveway or be satisfied with the five o’clock news broadcast. We always knew there was more. Now we can get it speedily and easily.We can—and many of us do—assemble our own news reports from these vast data streams. We can use tools to help navigate our way through the masses of information. But our current tools are crude, and the flood of data gets more overwhelming all the time. The “Daily Me”—a roll-your-own collection...
...fuchsia, and orange, offers an artistic parallel to the challenges facing today’s CRLS. The colorful design pays tribute to the school’s commitment to diversity, but the odd color scheme also points toward the difficulties in coordinating resources for 1,800 students with a vast range of needs.“We’ve made great strides over the last couple of years and we continue to see improvements,” said Cambridge Public Schools Information Office Director Justin Martin.But current principal Sybil Knight acknowledges the school has had a troubled history...
...then there’s the ironic charge that Hist10a’s vast subject matter is spread too thin—ironic, because it’s certainly not advocates of the study of the West who have forced two millennia of Western Civilization into one semester...