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...Miraculously (as it seemed at first), people would help. Far from averting their gaze or palming me off, interviewees would e-mail me extra information, share anecdotes, call me back to check details. They were often funny and invariably nice. No longer an abstract phobia, strangers were an extracurricular...
Junior Parents Weekend brought more than just free meals and clean rooms to the happy quarter of Harvard who got to have Mom and Dad check out what they’re paying 40 grand for...it seems that one parent, eager to get the authentic experience, partied so hard at Purimpalooza that he/she was found passed out in the basement and UHS had to be called in...A group of juniors, ready to let loose after playing it straight for the parents, boarded the shuttle ready to rage. Unfortunately for them, their foul mouths were overheard by one student?...
...your attention: Look really wasted. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Listen to a police scanner. About 6’ tall, Caucasian male, known to be drunk and suspected of first degree handsomeness. First thing you notice about a girl: 1. Full set of teeth? Check. 2. Depth of character. Your best pick-up line: You live in Weld? Have you heard of the Cleveland Steamer? Best lie you’ve ever told: Alexandra Palma, the results came back and you’re definitely not the mother of my child. Something you’ve always...
Better double-check your appointment schedules this Sunday, March 11. That's when daylight saving time will start - three weeks earlier than usual - in most of the U.S. and Canada. In an attempt to save electricity, the U.S. Congress introduced a provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandating that clocks "spring forward" three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and "fall back" a week later, on the first Sunday in November. But the energy conservation that extra hour of sunlight is supposed to deliver comes with a cost: computer glitches that some fear could...
...change could be bad news for industries with time-sensitive data like travel schedules, bank transactions and stock market purchases. If computers are off by an hour, check receipts could be logged at the wrong time, million-dollar stock trades could be missed and automated equipment in emergency rooms or manufacturing plants could malfunction - to name some worst-case scenarios. There's also the worry of cascading failures. "Changing the time zone in some applications might throw others out of whack," says Ben Kus, senior technology director at BigFix, a computer management firm. Even if fears of Y2K hysteria...