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...Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common sin of conflating his subject with his life - the book is as much memoir as history - he does...
...this as a powerful tool that could transform education in developing countries,” said Calestous Juma, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, who is also a member of the OLPC Board of Directors. Juma said he believed yesterday’s event was a chance for Harvard students to get behind the movement of using technology to improve conditions in impoverished countries. “I think an interesting outcome of this event would be to see how the various student organizations that have sponsored this event can do something substantive,” he said...
...cranberry sauce. One student, Kamille C. Washington ’10, said that she especially appreciated that kosher foods tend to be more organic. Abby E. Schiff ’11, Matthew P. Cavedon ’11, and Sarah J. Hallett ’11 coordinated the event. Planning for the dinner started at the beginning of the year as students sought to unite various religious groups. “We thought Thanksgiving would be a perfect time because the ultimate principles are the same across religions,” Hallett said. The emphasis of the night...
...petition signed by over 200 faculty and students was delivered to the office of Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier, who was traveling at the time. The event drew the attention of representatives from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and former New England Journal of Medicine editor Arnold S. Relman, a Medical School professor who extemporaneously addressed the group...
...that since this the study examined healthy individuals, researchers generally anticipate low short-term rates of disease. He added that the effect was “so striking between active therapy and placebo that an independent monitoring board felt compelled to stop the trial early, also resulting in low event rates...