Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cline, Larsen libararian of Harvard College, and Lynne M. Schmelz, librarian of Cabot Science Library, for listening to the students and creating a plan for a 24-hour library. The extra time to study in a quiet space is appreciated by students, who are currently stressing under the weight of innumerable final papers and exams. Opening Cabot full-time allows students optimum flexibility in planning their periods of study...
...highway and into some Connecticut shrubbery Sunday morning. An unknown Ukrainian orphan who first emerged as an international sports celebrity after cinching an Olympic gold in 1994 at the age of 16, Oksana had slipped to the sidelines of world competition, plagued by back and knee injuries, weight gain and the distractions of stardom. On Tuesday, police charged Baiul, 19, who now lives in Connecticut, with drinking and reckless driving in the accident over the weekend. Baiul, whose blood alcohol easily exceeded the state limit, and who is two years short of the legal drinking age of 21, was released...
...benefits to that calendar are manifold. First, and most poignant at this moment, is that winter vacation can be a true vacation. As our schedule stands presently, we leave for vacation with the weight of finals looming over us. It is hard to relax fully when you have that unread Foucalt and the research for an unwritten tutorial paper--to say nothing of the CS assignment--staring at you from your open knapsack. During those moments when you are enjoying yourself, unfriendly images of dead theorists and live professors prance before your eyes. When you are working, you feel like...
...doesn't want his last name used--is a Colombian who lives in Miami. Though HIV positive, he's in good health. His five-year-old daughter, who also carries the virus, is not. Three months ago, she lay helpless in a local hospital. In just two weeks her weight dropped from 32 to 22 lbs. Even so, her father could not find a doctor who would risk giving her the new drugs. "They kept telling me, 'No, there are no data for children.' I said, 'Listen, if I don't get this medicine, I'm going to lose...
This matter-of-factness was inevitable: the sheer passage of time dilutes horror. The earliest AIDS deaths were accompanied by roaring panic. My friend Eric, a stage manager and haberdashery salesclerk, died in '86. His extreme weight loss and hollow-cheeked pallor gave him a look of near theatrical decay, and his paranoia and memory loss were not then recognized as symptoms of dementia. He was surprisingly granted a luxurious room in a Manhattan hospital, with a uniformed guard at the door; we later discovered that the staff was being extra cautious because another AIDS patient had jumped from...