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...typical weekend afternoon, Beijing's Silk Street Market buzzes with the sound of tens of thousands of tourists haggling over antiques, jewelry and knock-off Gucci handbags. Rickshaw drivers normally scoop up these marketgoers, pedal them to their hotels and return with pockets full of foreign currency - a lucrative cycle drivers can repeat dozens of times a day. In recent months, though, the Silk Street Market's once reliable bustle has thinned dramatically. "I haven't seen a single tour bus pulling into the market this morning," says Lao Qian, a 49-year-old rickshaw driver taking a long lunch...
...began a set contribution to Arts First this afternoon from Charles F. Gillespie '10. Clad in a breezy plaid shirt with red suspenders, 'Chas' played the keyboard and alternated between tooting on a harmonica or belting out puzzling lyrics, never once giving his poor diaphragm a break...
...influenza linked to the Harvard Dental School have been deemed by local and state health officials “probable” infections of H1N1 “swine flu,” according to an announcement made by the Boston Public Health Commission at a press conference Friday afternoon. The announcement raises the total number of possible cases in the Boston area to nine, adding to the original diagnosis of a Dental School student that was announced last week. Of those nine, two cases tested as Type A influenza accompanied by “acute febrile respiratory illness...
...student. “I just had no idea what was up with them other than that they were rung every Sunday,” she said. “I remember it being early in the morning, although now I realize it was at 1:00 in the afternoon.” According to Batuman, the bells are a symbol of spirituality as well as political freedom in Russia. “A lot of people were crying,” she said of the moment when the bells were returned to the Danilov Monastery. “They...
...Mirza said. “The FLA has really mishandled this case in terms of their investigation.” Mirza and Chavarría Lopez have sent a letter to Harvard President Drew G. Faust, and they spoke to students outside the Science Center early in the afternoon on Thursday, although they have been unable to set up a meeting with Calixto. Following this talk with students, Chavarría Lopez sat down to discuss her experience as a worker in the Honduras factory. As Mirza translated, Chavarría Lopez described working eleven hour days for minimum wage...