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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While you were waiting in the bitter cold line for that free "FALE" shirt in November, our Yale compatriots rivals were debating whether a "Sissy" shirt should be printed...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Saga of the Sissy Shirt | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...this kind of closes the book on whether or not, if you start taking ginkgo later in life, you are going to have cognitive benefit," says DeKosky, vice dean of the School of Medicine. "We don't have good evidence that it maintains good brain health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Ginkgo Flunks Test as a Brain Booster | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

DeKosky admits that the study has its limitations - the subjects were more than 70 years old, and it's not clear whether ginkgo's effect on the brain may be more profound if introduced earlier. Then there is the question of exactly how ginkgo is acting on the body; if the compound works by improving circulation not just in the brain but throughout the body, for example, then this study may not have been refined enough to pick up those subtle, more indirect effects. "What we would really like to see is additional research," says Douglas MacKay, vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Ginkgo Flunks Test as a Brain Booster | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

Electrical maintenance was scheduled to take place at the data center from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. today, according to a notice on FAS IT's Web site. It is unclear whether maintenance activities had a role in today's outage...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BRIEF: 'Major' Power Failure Disrupts Harvard IT Services | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

Mounting Y2K hysteria overshadowed debate in the late '90s, as many worried less about what to call the next decade and more about whether there would be one. After the world failed to end at the stroke of midnight, linguistic experts promised that a nickname would bubble up over time. Despite creative attempts--including Ryan Guerra's decade-long quest to popularize the Unies via brochures and blog manifestos--none has. We've gotten by for so long calling this decade the 21st century--a term that will sound ridiculous in 50 years--that we might as well get started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's So Hard to Name the '00s | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

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