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...that blowout simply never happened. The Crimson added just three more points in the second half while Dartmouth crept back into contention with two touchdowns. Only by virtue of a missed extra point, a failed two-point conversion and clutch Harvard defense was the squad able to avoid a stunning upset...
...you’ve probably already heard, listen to their first album, where they actually manage to rock a bit—or if you must, listen to their second album, where they generally pull off the dance-punk vibe much better. The long term solution, though, is to avoid the band altogether and throw on some Black Eyes instead...
Mark says that for a sadomasochist, there is a difference between harm and hurt. Harm he tries to avoid at all costs; hurt, however, is good. “Pain and pleasure are not polar opposites to us. There’s painful pleasure; there’s pleasurable pain,” Mark says. “Pain to us is simply sensation that is very intense. Because it’s so intense, like a bright light, people normally might shy away from it. But people who enjoy that intensity will go towards...
...after working at the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this summer, Lester Y. Leung ’06 decided to avoid what he saw as a familiar problem for students contemplating medical school—not having enough resources to help them decide if they wanted to pursue careers in medicine. Leung explains that there is currently a hostile culture to doctors today that did not used to exist as a result of malpractice suits, health care policy and declining...
...Some of the Thursday Girls subscribe to this theory, and science hasn't entirely discredited it. But the weight of evidence suggests it's flimsy. While depression has been shown to affect outcome in some conditions, there's no clear link with cancer. "One myth for sure is that avoiding stress and being positive has survival benefits," says Jane Turner, a Brisbane psychiatrist who treats young adults with cancer. "Most people find that being told to be positive is a burden, and one woman commented that people only say that to avoid hearing how hard it really...