Word: note
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...researchers note that some sorts of asbestos are far more dangerous than others and that the safest type is used almost exclusively in U.S. buildings. The bottom line: the risk of dying from smoking, drowning, airplane crashes or even playing high school football is 100 to 1,000 times as great as the risk of dying from asbestos exposure in buildings. "We have known this for two years," complains Mossman, "yet I can still pick up a newspaper that says it's a problem...
...Note to The Perspective: Harvard's most respected--and only--liberal monthly made a valiant attempt at some humor of their own in this month's issue. They even took the opportunity to get in some jibes at Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily. But in the Perspective's "calendar" of events to come this spring, they failed to get the joke quite right. They predicted that The Crimson would change its official form "freshperson" to "freshper-offspring." What they failed to note, however, is The Crimson's official/unofficial term for first-year students: freshperchild...
...week. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, that is. You might notice upon arrival in Spence's plush University Hall corner office that he is unusually tan. And since we wouldn't want anyone to think that Spence had been going to a tanning salon or anything, we note that the dean was seen on a plane Tuesday. The plane took off from Florida, and the dean was on it--complete with unnatural winter skin coloring. It could not be confirmed whether Spence's trip had anything to do with fundraising...
...Editor's Note...
...miles to the Tobin Bridge in his new Nissan Maxima and jumped. When police fished him out of the water, he was dressed in blue jeans and a parka, suggesting that he may have picked up a change of clothes after leaving the convenience store. Stuart left a brief note on the passenger seat of his car that said, "I love my family . . . the last four months have been real hell . . . all the allegations have taken all my strength." Later, police searching his hotel room found an ashtray filled with change, the uncalled list of defense attorneys...