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...wartime India, en route to Britain from naval duty, British architect Laurie Baker met Mahatma Gandhi, who challenged him to return after the war to help house India's poor. In 1945, Baker did. Using mud, brick and other local materials, he engineered innovative, exuberant structures, many with pierced brick screens that dappled light and cooled rooms with natural air movement. Baker's low-cost, eco-friendly style, which became known as the "Baker method," inspired an organization of younger Indian architects that has, since the '80s, built homes for more than 10,000 poor families...
...vaccine, it would have been over. I would have needed a new job," he jokes. But the Italian-born physician is still working. In a few weeks he starts his new study, which is designed to test the vaccine's effectiveness in follicular lymphoma patients with an especially poor prognosis. Bendandi plans to administer the vaccine to participants until they relapse or die from a cause other than lymphoma. "This time," he says, "I'm going after a cure...
...Bourgeois has been championing his cause for over 15 years, having founded the School of Americas Watch in Washington. “The role of [WHINSEC] is to protect the economic interests of the U.S. in Latin America,” Bourgeois said. “The poor of Latin America are saying ‘Basta’—‘Enough!’” Eric A. Claros ’09, a member of the Latino Political Coalition, said Bourgeois’s experiences, particularly while serving in Vietnam, were very interesting...
Following the public comment section of the meeting, Councilor Michael A. Sullivan lamented the program’s poor reception...
...space to better use. Economics is the College’s largest department, and has one of its highest student-teacher ratios. The planned Littauer renovations could have invigorated pedagogy, providing new spaces for actual contact between students and professors in a department that likely contributes heavily to the poor advising satisfaction ratings given by concentrators in the social sciences. Now, as economics department chair James H. Stock admitted to The Crimson, students will have little reason to visit Littauer’s tiny classrooms for any reason other than “to get their study cards signed...