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...know plenty of you Harvard kids were only allowed to watch a few hours of TV a week growing up, or grew up without a television at all, so you probably can’t even imagine the idea of sitting in a chair and watching TV for eight hours a day. But this was truly a dream come true for me. I watch at least eight hours of TV a day in the summer anyway, so why not commute to New York...
...voters: the economy. Other voting blocs, such as white evangelicals, have also expressed strong concerns about the economic situation but have not shifted over to support the Democratic ticket, primarily because of a strong identification with the GOP. But Catholics have a different relationship with the Democratic Party. Many grew up with grandparents who hung portraits of FDR on the living room wall and have parents who celebrated Kennedy's victory as one of their...
Excrement. Stool. Defecation. S___. This unlikely tour of the underworld of human waste grew out of the author's 2006 series on sewage for the online magazine Slate. George, an accomplished London-based writer, has inarguably hit on an important topic. As many as 2.6 billion people lack sanitation--meaning no access to a latrine, a toilet, a bucket or even a box. The health consequences are, not surprisingly, catastrophic: "A gram of feces," George writes, "can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs." The privileged Westerner winces. Yet in an upbeat...
...Security, unemployment insurance, the Securities and Exchange Commission and a vastly strengthened Federal Reserve system. Complemented by the multilateral bodies that were spawned at the end of World War II, these institutions formed a latticework of stability and security on which the nation's and the world's economies grew so robustly that a new word, globalization, was coined to describe the results...
After the 1975 founding of the Radcliffe Pitches, an all-female counterpart to the Kroks, Harvard’s a cappella scene grew steadily. The current level of interest in joining an a cappella group has led to an audition season that at times amazes current members...