Word: abound
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...only candidate to poll poorly in the music stakes. Most efforts over the 25-year history of the French campaign song have been, frankly, terrible. But thanks to the marvels of Web 2.0, the Internet has breathed new life into the genre. Mash-ups and tribute tracks abound on dailymotion.com (the French answer to YouTube) and in the country's satirical blogs...
...Most of the children who grow up in Tam Binh orphanage go straight into the workforce after leaving school, a fact of life the orphanage recognizes. Tam Binh has 10 sewing machines to train teenagers in job skills (garment and shoe factories abound in Vietnam and garments are the country's second-largest-earning export behind crude oil). "Some of them go to work in factories. But some of them have even become teachers." And then Trung says, "Those who are not as clever, they can be street vendors - it's like all others in a society...
...Karma Yoga at 7:30 p.m. But the off-campus dinner location isn’t a protest—the Harvard Vegetarian Society maintains that HUDS is a strong ally to anyone who lives a meatless life. Even on days when vegan-friendly entrees don’t abound (for lunch on Friday Mar. 9, the only vegan dining options were miso soup and whole kennel corn), the salad bar is a perennial fallback. “You can’t really go wrong there,” says Wiggin. HUDS pulls out all the stops to keep...
...truth—but not everyone is buying it. Even in the midst of Harvard’s new environmental initiatives, such as Green Allston, the Green Cup, and other eco-friendly programs, not everybody is gung-ho about the environment. Reasons for anti-Green and Green-neutral thinking abound, starting with plain and simple dendrophobia. “I hate trees,” Frances I. Martel ’09 declares. “I’d rather not look at them.” For Martel, it all boils down to aesthetics...
Signs of Piaf nostalgia abound. On Feb. 28, La Môme's soundtrack ranked No. 4 on France's album charts and was among the Top 10 album downloads on iTunes' French site. Six best-selling music books on the French version of Amazon are Piaf titles. At least five books on or by Piaf were published last month, and more are on the way. Paris' prestigious Marigny Theater is reprising the hit play Piaf, une Vie en Rose et Noir to near-capacity crowds. Considering Piaf's popularity abroad - which other French singer can shift 75,000 copies...