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...that are much stronger and more durable than tents. "[Concrete Canvas] gives aid agencies and the military an advantage by allowing a hardened building from Day One of a crisis," says Brewin. "From field research in Uganda, we observed that a usable building always has value in the reconstruction phase after a disaster." The pair are developing plans to market their product. Demand shouldn't be an issue. Relief agencies in Africa have already expressed a need for such shelters. Disaster, both human and natural, is unceasing...
...second year in a row, Harvard’s Radcliffe Rugby Football club qualified for the Division I Sweet 16 phase of the USA Rugby National Championship Series.After winning all five games in their league, the team placed second at the Northeast regionals, earning them one of 16 places in the National Championship series, which will be held in April at Pennsylvania State. “I heard there are maybe 150 teams in the Northeast, so we finished number two, and I think that’s pretty good,” says Radcliffe Rugby club president Emily...
More than 11,000 heads of state, business leaders, technology experts, development gurus and do-gooders have gathered this week in Tunisia for a UN-sponsored meeting dubbed the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The second phase of a two-part meeting that began in Geneva just under two years ago, the Tunisia conference has some heady aims. The most controversial issue going into the summit was who should control the Internet, which is currently managed by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit company set up by the U.S. Department...
...Beggars Banquet” as the one song he would have included the film if he’d had the budget.The studio had a different idea of what was missing from “Harvest”: a more optimistic conclusion. Ramis, approached during the rewrite phase of production, was asked if there existed the possibility that the crooked Charlie might do something good with the money. Ramis says he replied simply that “Charlie goes to orphanage and gives it to some nuns.” Though the possibility demands a fair bit of optimism, with...
...exactly of the same tone as the conversations my roommate and I share from top and bottom bunk, albeit with slightly different syntax. Anyone who missed the reading for Reid Professor of English and American Literature Phillip J. Fisher’s English 157, “The Classic Phase of the Novel,” can skip the SparkNotes and use this film as a reliable source. In his gorgeous tableau, Wright has masterfully preserved the essence of Austen’s characters and captured the nuances of her society. He manages, in only 127 minutes, to leave...