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This month’s Ig Nobel Awards (a parody of the traditional Nobel prize ceremony) raised eyebrows and awareness by honoring the three scientists who confirmed Coca-Cola’s spermicidal properties. But their paper??which suggested, among other things, that Diet Coke was a more effective ex-sperminator—came out way back in 1985. The rebuttal from a Taiwanese team (also honored at this year’s Igs) which proved that Coke actually has no contraceptive properties, has been around since 1987. And for generations, we have reciting that famous folk-medicine...
...It’s the oldest and best known university in the United States.” Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Michael C. Winerip ’74 said in an interview that his 2007 New York Times article about Harvard admissions shot to the top of the paper??s “most e-mailed” list in part because of his repeated references to the University. “The name Harvard is synonymous with excellence,” Winerip said. “Harvard is held maybe to a higher standard and is questioned...
...While direct advertising is illegal in Canada, Michael R. Law, one of the paper??s authors and a research fellow at the school’s department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, recalled that as a child growing up in Toronto, he would frequently see advertisements for prescription drugs while watching American television programs. [CORRECTION BELOW...
Finally, there has been a vast increase of bureaucracy to cope with all the tasks–connections with the outside world, and management (as well as production) of a Himalayas of paper??both in the form of professional bureaucrats and in that of academics turned, willy-nilly, into part- or full-time administrators. The only law of political “science” I recognize as such is: the greater the bureaucracy, the less efficient it tends to become...
...deals will most likely serve to limit the leadership opportunities for student journalists and restrict the editorial autonomy of college newspapers. In January, a falling-out between the student government and newspaper at Montclair State University required the editors to suspend publication as the student-body representatives pulled the paper??s funding. A major concern was that funding was yanked primarily due to the paper??s criticisms of the student government. College administrations need to be sure that there is steady financial support for student newspapers on college campuses and that they have the freedom...