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Sophomore Max Odom, who was last season's Ivy Rookie of the Year, made his second NCAA tournament yesterday, moving up to the 157-lb bracket. Oregon State's Eric Jorgensen, seeded fourth in the tournament, soundly defeated Odom, 13-1. Odom will next take on either P.J. Boccia of Appalachian State or Ohio State's Josh Janson in the consolation round...
...Anne Jorgensen, 22, a law student at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., who uses birth-control pills, has a secret she doesn't want her doctor to know. To make it easier to attend her winter formal, a wedding and a few other special events, she tricked her body into skipping its monthly menstrual cycle several times in the past year. How? Instead of taking the last seven pills in her contraceptive case, which contain the placebos, or dummy pills, that allow her uterine lining to slough off each month, she immediately started her next month's batch...
...Jorgensen is not alone. Practically since the Pill was introduced in 1960, women have used it to manipulate the timing of their periods--something the contraceptive was not designed to do. But what has been an off-label practice may soon become mainstream. Researchers at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk are testing a new contraceptive formula, called Seasonale, which can reduce the number of periods a woman experiences to as few as four a year...
...face looked familiar, but Jorgensen could not remember how he knew the man-until he realized that it was the man who usually asked him for spare change in the subway...
...school of government and public service, so it's nice to see the public involved," Jorgensen says...