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...Harvard community withstood its first touch of Old Man Winter yesterday as a midday storm dumped two inches of wet, slushy snow on the ground...
...Ritts uses photography to explore the human form, distilling it into clean, pure lines. Sometimes this concentration on form and line reduces the very humanity of the subject. In one photograph from a series taken at the beach, a woman heads out to sea. The smooth mass of wet hair plastered against her naked back and the dark triangle of her bikini bottom both define and contrast with the shape of her body against the glossy ripples of the ocean. The visual statement of these two dark splotches against her skin is so powerful that it almost overwhelms the knowledge...
...were more dramatic? If living to the century mark involves little more than riding the demographic wave, how much further than 100 is it possible to go? Is 150 reasonable? 200? What about 300? And if not, why not? The body, after all, is just a machine--albeit a wet, cranky, willful one--and, as with all machines, it should be possible to extend the warranty. "There is no evidence we know of that human life expectancy is anywhere close to its ultimate limit," says James Vaupel, a Duke University demographer and the soon-to-be director...
...first class meeting of the biology seminar Conservation and Biodiversity, a course with a significant (often cold and wet) fieldwork component, the instructors have one firm guideline for the students: no whining...
...Cotton excuses Clinton's lack of direction by explaining, "A truly complex man, it would take years to fully understand him [Clinton]." The problem with understanding Clinton is that there isn't anything to understand--Clinton possesses no ideology, direction, or firm beliefs on any issues. Like a wet snake, if you tighten your grip on Slick Willie at any one point, he just pops out the other end. --Noble M. Hansen...