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With each new dietary study, eating seems to become less of a joyful experience and more of a risky business. The latest word follows that depressing pattern: researchers announced that the chances of developing colon cancer appear to rise almost in direct proportion to the amount of red meat and animal fat that people consume. That left fearful Americans grappling with the question: Is it wise to eat any red meat...
Within hours, Harvard Yard is crowded with peace protesters. Within a few days, students storm University Hall and shut down the College. Police and National Guard units finally restore order, at least until the first draft notices appear at doorsteps...
...most surprising recent discoveries concerns the sleep needs of adolescents. For years they were urged to get eight hours, the same as adults. No longer. Teenagers appear to require more than 9 1/2 hours. Carskadon found that to be the case when she studied a group of children every summer for seven years, from the time they were ages 10 to 12 until they turned 17 to 19. During the experiments, the youngsters got 9 1/2 hours of sleep each night. In the beginning years of the study, they experienced no problems during the day, but after they reached puberty...
...Others appear to be getting even less. And that is interfering with their ability to learn, contend teachers, who say they are confronting more and more draggy pupils, even in elementary school. Sleepy youngsters are arriving late to class, forgetting assignments, moving at a snail's pace from task to task, and sometimes dropping their head on their desk to catch a few winks...
Harvard senior Michael Francis will appear between the twines for the first time since Nov. 16, when he made 31 saves in a 4-3 loss to Princeton...