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NyQuil and Chills: I lost a week to the flu
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NyQuil and Chills: I lost a week to the flu

By the time the hot water hit my feverish head, I realized I wasn’t hungover on a Tuesday morning. The headache hadn’t passed, my skin was oddly numb despite our enthusiastic water heater, and my body felt like a piñata salvaged from an eight-year-old’s birthday party. Getting sick during the school year is a higher...

Library adds new streaming service, research tool to its website
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Library adds new streaming service, research tool to its website

The Mossey Library recently added two new features to its online resources for students. The website now offers Ambrose, an online video widget, and Yewno Discover, an innovative research site. Ambrose brings more Shakespeare and historical movies to the library’s growing collection of films. IndieFlix, FilmStruck, and Films on Demand, all movie resources the library...

I lost my credit card in D.C.
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I lost my credit card in D.C.

The fourth time I pull my head out of a District Taco garbage can in Washington, D.C., I still can’t find my credit card. The discarded plates of diners who came before me have been scraped clean in my frantic search for the piece of plastic I failed to bet against. It’s an afternoon in...