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Bostonians may “love that dirty water,” but the Charles River may be running a little clearer by 2013. The river will see a drastic decrease in contamination—specifically, “over a 99 percent reduction in combined sewage overflow,” the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), Frederick A. Laskey, said yesterday. Combined sewage overflow (CSO) refers to the contamination that enters the river through pipes containing both storm water and sewage spillover. The move, slated for completion by 2013, could “perhaps make...

Author: By Peter R. Raymond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sewage Overflow in Charles To Decrease | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

...hand of geography is a very heavy hand,” University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geography professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared M. Diamond ‘58 told an overflow crowd in Science Center B last night. The former Winthrop House resident delivered a lecture entitled “Continental Differences in Human History” to an appreciative audience that filled several lecture halls and numbered at least 800, according to a Harvard University Police Department officer’s estimate. This talk was the first in a series of three that Diamond will deliver...

Author: By Tom C. Denison, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diamond Talks History | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...reasons other than to go over a paper due the next day or to get help on a frighteningly hard problem set. A former Princeton professor once told me that students used to knock down doors to speak to professors during office hours—that lines would overflow into the halls. At Harvard, however, a common complaint is that students often feel too intimidated to visit professor’s office hours considering how far behind they are in the reading or how little knowledge they have of the actual course. So, do a little reading! Or, go talk...

Author: By Jillian N. London | Title: Opening Doors | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

...inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate than men. As communities are left bereft of mothers and fathers, orphanages overflow, and grandparents are left to care for grandchildren. Worldwide, children themselves comprise one in every six deaths from AIDS...

Author: By Matthew F. Basilico, Luke M. Messac, and Sarah A. Moran | Title: Beyond the Red Ribbon | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...rancorous event that often challenged the moderator’s ability to keep control and drew strong reactions from the overflow crowd, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz debated MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict last night.The debate at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, which touched on issues such as the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and Israel’s commitment to peace, was highly confrontational. Dershowitz accused Chomsky of living on a fictional “Planet Chomsky” and Chomsky claimed that Dershowitz had misrepresented his views...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prominent Profs Spar Over Israel | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

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