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Though there are drawbacks to taking a significant hiatus from competitive hockey—Reese acknowledges “it’s tough to practice for two weeks when you don’t have a game”—the Crimson’s 11th-place position in the league tables has been a strong motivating factor...
...It’s very rapidly evolving,” said Pardis C. Sabeti, a Broad Institute researcher who contributed to the study and whose previous work has focused on natural selection in humans. Sabeti, like Wirth, was reached in Senegal—a country that ranks 11th worldwide in malaria prevalence, according to information from the United Nations University. In 2000, malaria affected 11.9 percent of the Senegalese population, according to the UN Development Programme. Malaria is a leading cause of death in the developing world, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Between 350 and 500 million...
Clarke was also part of the relay team that helped finish out the meet for Harvard in 400-yard freestyle relay event. The team, composed of Clarke, Hart, freshman Sophie Morgan, and senior Emily Wilson, was able to take 11th place...
...head of religious affairs Ali Bardakoglu, the Pope cited "mutual respect and esteem," "human and spiritual unity" and the common heritage of Islam and Christianity as ancestors of Abraham. In marked contrast to the nasty historical quote he'd cited in Regensburg, the Pope referred to a warm 11th century meeting of Pope Gregory VII and a Muslim prince. Still smarting from Regensburg, Bardakoglu told the Pope: "The so-called conviction that the sword is used to expand Islam in the world and growing Islamophobia hurts all Muslims...
...European identity is deeply troubling and potentially dangerous. This is what Muslims must respond to: the tendency of Westerners to ignore the critical role that Muslims played in the development of Western thought. Those who "forget" the decisive contributions of rationalist Muslim thinkers like al-Farabi (10th century), Avicenna (11th century), Averroes (12th century), al-Ghazali (12th century), Ash-Shatibi (13th century) and Ibn Khaldun (14th century) are reconstructing a Europe that is not only an illusion but also self-deceptive about its past...