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...black and white, accept each other proves that war between civilizations is not inevitable. This sends out a global message of hope.'' Jean Cocteau remarked in his memoirs that stupidity is always amazing to behold, no matter how often one has encountered it. If war represents at bottom a kind of moral stupidity, the Men of the Year were making their way out of that violent region and toward a better part of the mind. That too was amazing to behold...
...Canadian women. Although another recent study suggested that consuming moderate amounts of coffee had no effect, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advises expectant mothers to cut down on the caffeine they consume. --Blood pressure is measured by a ratio of two numbers. For years, doctors thought the bottom number, which measures blood pressure between beats, was more important in determining a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke. But new research shows that even a slightly elevated top number, which measures pressure when the heart is contracting, can be just as deadly...
Blustery blizzards on Saturday, sweltering sunshine on Tuesday—seems like Cambridge’s weather is as loony as its panhandlers. To get to the bottom of our freaky climate, FM checked out ye olde bastion of meteorological knowledge: The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The paperback tome, published annually since 1792, purports to predict a year’s worth of America’s weather. This year, things look especially grim for Beantown. Come winter, Harvardians can look forward to reading period, latkes at Hillel, and “much greater than normal?...
...dinner in the Pforzheimer House dining hall, something—a name, a memory, a vision—caught my eye. On the far wall, facing me, hung the illustrated bracket for the House Scrabble Tournament, with each participant designated by first initial and last name. Towards the bottom was the appellation “M. Simon.” I now know this to be the entry of a forgiving young lady called Maya, but at the time I could scarcely help but lapse into a daydream about former Arizona Wildcats shooting guard and college basketball star Miles Simon...
...angry, and he doesn’t ask for help. He just wants his interviewer to understand one thing. When you’re talking about poverty, he says, “Stakes is high.” Harvard employees have fought their way out of rock-bottom wages. They’re not as vulnerable as the people we saw on our television sets devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But they still face economic uncertainty that makes their current wage battle far more than a test of economic theories. As this debate continues to play out, that?...