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...Every day, pleading overwork, millions of men cancel millions of promises made to millions of children. Dads cannot read bedtime stories or go to the park. Dads are in their offices, or on the road, or on conference calls. The effects of this physical or emotional absenteeism are actually quantifiable: numerous academic studies have shown that children with distant fathers score lower on tests of empathy, reasoning and brain development than those whose fathers are more involved. The former behave more aggressively, don't get on as well with siblings, tend to be less popular in school and are more...
...It’s a little dangerous,” said resident tutor Uchechukwugaeme O. Nwamara. “The cars are notoriously fast on that road. It’s also unwieldy, since the island hasn’t been built...
...fifth day of the road trip, the van leaves Gyseni, a former colonial lake resort in the western province of Rwanda, and takes a bumpy and circuitous route to Kibuye, on the eastern shore of Lake Kivu. The driver constantly sounds his horn or drives frighteningly close to people to scare them off the road. The landscape outside is breathtaking: lush green hills, banana plantations and in the distance, the Virunga volcanoes, home of the famous Rwandan mountain gorillas...
After dealing with bitter cold, day-long road trips, and the lack of its co-ed captain for a few weeks, the Harvard sailing team was finally out in full force last weekend, as the No. 4 co-ed squad and the No. 6 women’s team sailed in a total of three regattas along the East Coast, picking up a third, a fourth, and a fifth-place finish in the spring season’s fourth weekend of action. While the bulk of the Crimson competed in the Northeast over the weekend, the most important practice still...
Time to head north.Harvard concluded its equivalent of spring training on Thursday with an uninspiring overall record of 4-8, after dropping six of eight games on its recent seven-day getaway to Florida. Head coach Joe Walsh used the road trip to tinker with his batting order and vet candidates for the everyday lineup and regular starting rotation. “I’m looking for somebody to take a job out there, whether it’s an infielder or an outfielder,” Walsh said. ”We’ve just been moving...