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Merry Touborg, a spokesperson for the Office of Human Resources (OHR), said that Harvard’s Office of the General Counsel is preparing a letter “with all deliberate speed” to request that contractors begin to investigate the criminal records of their Harvard workers...
...returns the fish to the clear, cold water. Rosgen, a hydrologist, helped bring this stretch of river back to life. The land along the water here had been hammered by years of cattle grazing, the banks eroded after willows were removed to make way for more hay. At the request of the landowner, Rosgen dragged in boulders and chunks of dead trees, placing them strategically to regulate stream flow. He engineered the streambed to just the right grade for optimum flow velocity, and lined it with clean gravel quarried from the property. He transplanted thousands of willow saplings...
...risk places, as calculated by AIR for TIME. In fact, funding appears to be almost inversely proportional to risk. If all the federal homeland-security grants from last year are added together, Wyoming received $61 a person while California got just $14, according to data gathered at TIME's request by the Public Policy Institute of California, an independent, nonprofit research organization. Alaska received an impressive $58 a resident, while New York got less than $25. On and on goes the upside-down math of the new homeland-security funding...
...National Conference of State Legislatures. Recently, the state's office of homeland security asked the Wyoming legislature for $532,000 over and above the $105,000 it already pays for Wyoming security chief Moore's salary. But the Governor and the office of homeland security removed the request before the measure came up for a vote because, says Governor Freudenthal, "they were going to kill the bill" otherwise. Since Sept. 11, California has spent roughly $5 a person of its own money on homeland security; Wyoming has spent about...
Both my parents work in the mental health field; I never would have thought twice about any of my friends seeking help. However, to go to the fourth floor of UHS and request counseling was to admit to myself that I lacked confidence in my ability to sort out my problems alone. I needed help, and—like most Harvard students I know—I was uncomfortable admitting...