Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course I could have had more fun at some other school. Only a Bible college or the Kansas Institute for Coroners could do less to encourage students having fun than the Harvard administration does. And of course, there are those disheartening Harvard sections ("Well, I didn't do the reading, but I'm reminded of what Nietzsche said..."--"I'm sorry, this is a physics class"). During these sections, we do seem like gold-plated piles of manure--well-packaged but ultimately full of the same old crap. Exposed to this side of Harvard for too long, I became bitter...
However, to say then that I should have never come to Harvard is silly. After four years here, Harvard is less of an experience than a part of who I am, an integral factor in my development which I can't conceive of wishing away. You might as well ask Rosie O'Donnell if she wishes she weren't obnoxious, or ask Larry Flynt if blatant sexual perversion really was the cat's pajamas after all. Or ask the Misanthropic Mr. Chu if he wishes he weren't Asi--well, never mind...
...popular belief, and the marriage counseling of yesteryear, new studies have found that airing all your differences with your marital partner is likely to do more harm than good. Such arguing often leads to, well, more arguing. According to a study by Andrew Christensen at UCLA, couples who are less critical and more accepting of their differences have the most successful marriages. Couples can find an online survey related to this research at acceptancesurvey.com...
...powerful aspirin-like drug called Ticlid to prevent clots in angioplasty patients who had had tiny stents placed in their vessels. But after Ticlid was linked to a rare but frightening blood disorder known as TTP, which attacks nearly every organ of the body, they turned to a supposedly less toxic drug called Plavix. Now researchers report the same trouble with Plavix. So far 11 cases of TTP have turned up among Plavix users--and their illness seems harder than ever to treat. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
...high in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he met up with a guru known as the Maharaji. Out of that encounter came both the name Ram Dass and Be Here Now, his 1970s million-selling guide to higher consciousness. Published this month, Still Here speaks to a generation less concerned with turning on, tuning in and dropping out than with fearing the effects of growing older. "In this society," he maintains, "aging is more in the closet than dying...