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...world recently assembled to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Boston University by trying to find a metaphor for the age in which we live. It was an elegant game, but also inadvertently right for an age of television and drugs, in which the world is reduced to a sound bite or a capsule, a quick fix of meaning...
...forgotten to bring with me my Lactaid tablets! (Some of The Crimson's lactose-intolerant readers may not be aware that the Lactaid company also produces chewable tablets which enable some intolerants to digest milk products, if one-half to three tablets are consumed with one's first bite of ice cream or sip of milk...
...easily treatable disease--rickettsial pox--is transmitted from tiny parasitic mites that dwell in the nests of mice, Alpert said. Even after an effective extermination program removes or kills many mice, these mites often leave the nests and bite students, he said...
...despite Bush's tough rhetoric, the plan is flawed because it lacks adequate funding. It is all bark with little bite. Still Bush's message--that the United States should wage a real war on drugs--is a serious one that all American citizens, including members of the Harvard community, should take seriously...
Cuts in federal student aid during the Reagan years have also taken a toll, forcing schools to contribute more from their own coffers. Like other labor- intensive businesses, colleges feel the bite of rising fringe benefits. At Brown, for instance, outlays for employee health-care premiums have quintupled since 1986. Then there is the need, fostered by feverish admissions competition, to provide more and better student services -- such as tennis courts and state-of-the-art gyms...