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...volunteer program organized by the HBS Volunteers, students painted storefronts in Roxbury, worked at a harbor-area homeless shelter and helped restructure a home for troubled adolescents in Jamaica Plain...
...only worsened the next day. Hampered by strict rules of nonengagement, hundreds of American soldiers found themselves watching helplessly as Haiti's blue-uniformed police and khaki-clad army troops waded into the capital's crowds, swinging metal nightsticks and indiscriminately firing tear-gas canisters. In front of the harbor, the Haitian authorities conducted brief sorties, beating anyone who fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge the flesh of his targets...
Scientists have plenty of evidence that people who develop the most severe form of diabetes harbor a genetic predisposition for the disease. But so far, they have not been able to pinpoint what triggers the deadly illness, in which the body's immune system destroys vital insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. One longstanding hypothesis got a big boost last week when researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh announced they had discovered compelling evidence that a virus is involved in Type I, or what used to be called juvenile diabetes. In their view, a viral infection causes the immune...
...World War II era saw the further entrenchment of Bechtel's financial and political clout. The federal government turned to Bechtel to construct warships for both the British and American fleets. And after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Secretary of War Henry Stimson literally ordered Bechtel to build the Alaska Oil Highway...
...retreat will begin tomorrow at the Stage Neck Inn in York Harbor, Maine. Faculty members can swim in the hotel sauna and eat seaweed-covered lobster in between meetings about the future of the department...