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...Szaky's office could pass for a landfill. Szaky, 24, the co-founder and CEO of plant-food manufacturer TerraCycle, sits in a chair that was at one time another firm's trash, next to a computer on a desk that were both once trash, and, with near palpable enthusiasm, draws supply-and-demand graphs on scraps of paper to show why he's so fond of building his business out of trash. "What is garbage?" he asks, marker in hand. "It's any commodity with a negative value, right? It's something you're willing...
...work against child sex offenders is certainly the most glaring irony of the emerging Foley scandal. Foley is a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and has played key roles in recent legislation to protect kids, including the Volunteers for Children Act, which gives organizations that work with youths access to FBI fingerprint checks to make sure they don't hire child molesters. Foley's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which has passed both the House and Senate, overhauls the national monitoring system for predatory pedophiles by closing legal loopholes, setting minimum...
...process of revamping its grant process to facilitate that, said Foundation intern Marisol Pineda-Condre ’08. The Foundation, which supports various student organizations, now has 60 member groups, up from the 10 it started with at its creation, said Foundation intern and Student Advisory Commitee co-chair Simi Bhat ’08. The rate of increase of cultural and ethnic groups has been greater than any other sub-type of group, Bhat said. Teddy L. Styles ’07, a Foundation intern and co-director of last year’s Cultural Rhythms, said that...
...UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights Amii Omara-Otunnu ’80 accused the media of selectively covering certain humanitarian crises while turning a blind eye to others, especially the on-going civil war in Uganda, at a film screening and discussion event Wednesday night. The event was co-sponsored by Harvard African Students Association (HASA) and uNight, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in northern Uganda. Since the initial 1986 rebellion, Uganda has seen constant conflict between the government and the rebel forces which reorganized as the Lord’s Resistance...
...Center” moniker, drop the charade, and dedicate this space to the entire undergraduate community. The center’s staff, we know, is welcoming to all, but the sign at the front door is certainly not. Andrew M. Trombly ’08, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a philosophy concentrator in Dunster House. Brian J. Rosenberg ’08, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a biology concentrator in Lowell House...