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While I was having a stroke, the man from the Registrar's Office explained that "there was a list of all the times and places in your registration packet. You probably just missed it." I knew I hadn't missed it because I am the sort of anal-retentive person who goes through everything in her registration packet and even reads the drug and alcohol policy before signing...
...perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Tim Miller's performance was the effort he made to break down mental boundaries: between himself and the audience as he perched naked on a young man's lap, or asked a woman to stroke his chest, right above the heart. He broke down the boundaries between male and female, in a surrealistic fantasy scene where he visualized himself giving birth (Via the anus) to the bodies of all his dead friends, as he recreated them by talking about them...
This peek into the future is not the result of a single stroke of inspiration from one editor; the idea grew over a year from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then, over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things...
...after decades of frustration and obscurity, the world of adhesion science is beginning to fulfill its promise. Researchers who look at many diseases as a failure of stickiness are designing both antisticky drugs and Super Glue-like drugs to treat a range of disorders, including heart disease, transplant rejection, stroke, arthritis, shock and cancer. Michael Gimbrone Jr., head of vascular research at Harvard Medical School, predicts "a whole new generation of therapeutic interventions." Several drugs are now being tried on humans, and early next year the first of them -- a gel that spurs wound healing -- will enter the final...
Harvard won the race by taking an early lead and hanging on to it. Senior stroke Bill Cooper paced the boat at 45 stroke per minute and the Crimson built a small early lead...