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...plaque can be reversed by a combination of drugs and a low-fat diet. A third study, by Dr. Dean Ornish of the University of California at San Francisco, has generated even more remarkable results. In his book, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, published by < Random House this month, Ornish describes how changes in life-style alone, like reducing stress as well as fat, can effectively reverse heart disease...
...example: someone calls on the phone and doesn't leave a message. Your roommate screams, "That was so random. Some random guy just called and didn't leave a message. How random...
...person calls your room and asks for you, it obviously isn't a wrong number. So it isn't random. It is just unexplainable. So is the unexplainable random? I think that only my "Space, Time and Motion" section leader--who spent an entire year trying to convince me that the universe is completely random in an orderly way--would buy that argument...
ANOTHER strange--pardon me, random--system of terminology at Harvard is the ever-growing "romantic encounter" slang. In a true melting-pot method, every student has brought a way of referring to the process of seduction from his or her high school. In a true Harvard semiotic (and pathetic) argument, the number of signifiers far outstrips the mystical signified object. (In other words, we have a lot of words for it, but it doesn't happen much...
...knows, perhaps they really did listen in on a genuine, brilliant intellectual converstaion. That would be completely random...