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Task force to evaluate pedestrian safety

An increased number of traffic-related accidents - including the death of Tufts student Boryana Damyanova in November - has prompted action on pedestrian and bicyclist safety in the Somerville/Medford area.



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Travelling Lush | BC = Belligerent Columnist

Have you ever begun a night of drinking knowing that you would probably vomit? The Lush sure has. For some reason, getting together with my friends from high school produces an inordinate amount of these nights.


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City needs to use what it already has

Due to tragic accidents like the recent death of Boryana Damyanova, pedestrian safety has been on the public's mind. The reaction from officials, however, has been appallingly weak.


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Potters: Voldemort can't stop the rock!!

Ever since their orientation show in Alumnae Lounge this fall, Harry and the Potters (also known as Paul and Joe DeGeorge) have enchanted the Tufts community. When we learned that the brother-brother duo who, as you might expect, perform rock songs about the popular J. K. Rowling series were coming to the Middle East on Feb. 19, we nearly fell off our Nimbus 2000s. I got a chance to talk with Paul (a Tufts grad, E'01) and, since there were no owls or fireplaces around, I settled for a phone call.




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Inside Fitness | No magic solution for washboard abs

Every night before I go to bed, I see infomercials for ab machines on TV. They always promise easy results and a washboard stomach. Three hundred dollars later (in only 30 easy payments of $9.99), I've realized that this isn't the case. How can I get ripped abs? Is there an easy way?


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Let's talk about (safe) sex

The use of contraception in oral sex was debated heatedly in Pearson 104 last night, as sexologist Logan Levkoff spoke to a packed room. Levkoff, who has made frequent appearances in women's magazines like Redbook - as well as on MTV, VH1, Oprah and the E! channel - was brought to Tufts through a Tufts Hillel initiative called "Vitality: Living Healthy, Living Well."




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Just how popular is Facebook?

According to Chris Hughes, a spokesperson for Facebook, the site now has "more than 12.4 million unique users who come on the site each month."





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Danish newspaper was 'shouting fire'

As American children are taught from a very young age, freedom of expression is an important right essential to any democratic society. The First Amendment protects nearly all forms of expression, whether they take the form of an independent press, misogynistic rap, pornography or even neo-Nazi and KKK propaganda.




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Could your Facebook profile throw a wrench in your future?

When the wildly popular Web site Facebook.com was created by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, it began as a safe haven for college students to express themselves through their profiles and to connect with each other.


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Coke under fire for policies abroad

Though the Coca-Cola Company is coming under increasing pressure from universities across the country due to alleged mistreatment of workers and environmental abuses, Tufts is not participating in the ban.