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Over the past two weeks, 6,349 Harvard students in 40 courses sectioned via Web sites...
...questions--why and where does it go? Barbara A. Mitchell, head of Access Services in Widener Library, spilled the beans on new blue: It's only temporary. The on-going Widener construction has blocked an exit and the blue line will take after-hours bookworms out of the library via the backroads--through the Staff Lounge (which Mitchell reminds are "not open to patrons"), past the photocopying area and out the West Exit into the Yard. Bon voyage...
...three friends have been in the same city for only 12 hours. Thomas moved here from Germany. Luis quit his job in Colombia. Amar arrived this morning from Tokyo via Vancouver. Now they are sitting at Elroys, a restaurant on a deserted block in San Francisco, talking about the business they are starting together. "We're so happy right now," Thomas says. "This is an adventure. We're jumping into the cold water, and it feels great." It's surprising that he doesn't go for a Gold Rush analogy, as people here tend to do once per conversation. Surprising...
...review of the outbreak ?- identified at first as St. Louis encephalitis ?- has determined that at least one of the deaths was caused by the West Nile virus, found only in Africa and Asia. Like the St. Louis version, the virus is carried by birds and transfers to humans via mosquito bites. "Although it?s never been identified as a cause of disease here, that may be because it wasn?t specifically checked," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "And, of course, encephalitis would be treated the same way no matter which virus had caused...
...Once you get past your own cultural generation, being out of touch by one generation or three doesn't matter much," Lewis said via e-mail. "It only matters when you get into a group with two different generations of students and suddenly realize that not only do you not get their jokes--that you are used to; they don't get each other's jokes, either...