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...College’s 12 House Committees (HoCos) cooperate to plan large campus-wide parties in House common spaces on the Thursday and Friday evenings before the Harvard-Yale game. By focusing the student body’s party-throwing energies on localized events—in the River on Thursday night, and in the Quad on Friday—the weekend’s dynamic could be one of communal celebration, involving the entire College, rather than of division, inherent in the smattering of smaller parties that traditionally takes place in the nights before The Game...
Does anyone really fear dying in a nuclear blast? In my atomic nightmare, my family survives. A flash of light across the East River in Manhattan; a tremor and roar; a column of flame. Then the questions. Do we pack up the kids and flee? Duct tape the windows and hope for help? How much food is in the pantry? How strong are the locks on the doors...
...thing rarely seen at Harvard, it’s a group of prep school graduates drinking together. To witness this unusual event, FM pushed through a crowd of Brooks Brothers clad rowing enthusiasts and stepped into Reunion Village, a cluster of tents on the south bank of the Charles River that proudly displayed the names of posh prep schools and universities (think Grottlesex and Ivys). Rowers and crew aficionados lounged on plastic folding chairs, sipping Hefeweizen Unfiltered Wheat Beer out of plastic cups as shells smoothly zipped by. The North Yarmouth Academy tent proudly displayed an assortment...
...Tangbai River in central China, for example, officials from Beijing visited earlier this year and promised a clean-up after a campaign by local activists drew national media attention to the cocktail of pollutants including chromium, benzene and volatilized phenol that had poisoned wells and, in at least one village, caused rice to stop growing and cancer rates to spike. But just last month, a tributary of the Tangbai was so polluted that when a TIME reporter drove by, hundreds of people stood along the banks of a stream with a powerful chemical stench, pulling out dead and dying fish...
...when pollution strong enough to kill fish by the bucket-load becomes commonplace, it's more than the water that's tainted. The Yellow River's turning red may be another warning to Beijing of the perils that lurk in its waterways...