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...call for removing grills from operation during lunch and using the resulting savings to fund extended dinner hours. Finally, the HUDS directors will figure out the cost of a “pantry option,” as the subcommittee called a last scenario. This would involve keeping a section of every house kitchen open until 8 p.m. for sandwiches, salad, and soup. “We want to make sure students will be comfortable with whatever the tradeoffs are,” said Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a member of the HUDS Student Advisory Committee. Chadbourne...
...ordeal began early Monday morning when a powerful explosion erupted inside an old, sealed-off section of the mine. The blast reverberated for miles around. ?I thought the roof of my house was coming off,? said Lynette Roby. One group of miners had lingered close to the mine entrance and was able to escape. Another group of 13 had ventured about 2.5 miles into the shaft and was trapped in a cloud of dust and carbon monoxide. One member of this group, fire boss Marty Bennett, had been traveling a few hundred feet in the rear, monitoring oxygen levels...
...exhausting to say so, and ‘to google’ was such an appealing alternative we took it up without a moment’s thought. Verbs stolen from nouns also carry a wealth of embedded information—facebooking someone in your section is much more interesting than merely ‘looking her up,’ as it suggests you’ll know who she’s friends with and whether she went to a “small, expensive and snobbish private school” or “a public school...
...thing I don’t do is associate myself with a firm in the summer jobs section. This was actually brought up recently by a Wall Street firm; a group of summer analysts wanted to make a facebook group, but were discouraged from doing so by a recruiter,” he says...
...mail lists, e-mail blunders are a part of everyday life. But while students might endure embarrassment for accidentally replying-all to a House list, or for sending sensitive information to the wrong e-mail address, most don’t expect their Teaching Fellow (TF) to broadcast section feedback to their entire class. Last Thursday, Joshua S. King, the head TF for English 13, “The English Bible,” accidentally sent out an e-mail meant only for TF Eliza E. Young to all 166 students enrolled in the course. King, who had taught Young?...