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...again. 13) Use your powers of animal empathy to communicate with Harvard Yard squirrels. They can chew through your bonds and, working as a team, carry you to freedom. 14) Replace a few strands of your hair with garotte wire. Too intense for you? Fine, fail your final. 15) Burrow into Harvard’s network of steam tunnels and escape to the relative freedom-from-grades of the Business School...
When the stock market was flying six year ago, some folks looked at their soaring portfolios and concluded they had enough money to retire--only to have to burrow back into work after the Internet bubble popped. Now another set of aspiring retirees, this one reveling in inflated home values, may be in for a similar rude awakening...
...bacteria can routinely burrow into produce this way, that means that standards regulating ready-to-eat produce need to get even stricter. Potential sources of bacterial contamination, from animal droppings to improperly drained fields or unclean irrigation systems, should be monitored more tightly if the $2.6 billion prewashed salad industry is to survive. Already, some spinach farmers in California have plowed their spinach fields under, convinced that for the time being at least, no one will be eager to eat their greens...
...Further north, the magnetic termites of the Northern Territory align their tall, narrow nests perfectly north to south. The thin-skinned insects are highly sensitive to temperature, and the orientation of the gravestone mounds allows the Territory sun to pass overhead without overheating the inhabitants. Elsewhere, termites burrow underground to escape the heat or open and close vents in an air-conditioning system, but during the big wet of the Top End that's not an option...
...brought confusion to some students’ outfits. “Sunday, I saw people running around in shorts, jumping in the snow and not knowing what to do,” said Gabriel M. Scheinmann ’08. The change in weather has forced many students to burrow into forgotten corners of their closets to revive that woefully neglected winter wardrobe. “I finally had the opportunity to wear my winter boots,” Emily H. Ma ’08 said. But despite the recent dip in degrees, this season’s campus...