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Despite the hype among sustainability advocates, Devlin says that visibility among the larger student population is the most challenging aspect of the recycling efforts. “The hardest thing is getting students to know what is going on,” she said. But, as one of the only student leaders on the competition’s team, Devlin called the Game Day Challenge “one step toward raising awareness...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard’s Game-Day Recycling Wins Award | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Halsey, who came from a family of linguists, was fluent in Mandarin among other languages and interested in Asian culture. He once wrote a physics paper combining his interests in linguistics and science, explaining Einsteinian theory in Chinese...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cabot Alum Dies at Age 26 | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Brennan, a government concentrator, will travel to Tanzania next year to study the different perceptions of service to the community among the Maasai and Chagga tribes...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Awarded Grants for Traveling | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, also favors a tax to cover the war's cost. While the idea has little chance of passing in either chamber, the fact that it has been proposed demonstrates the depth of opposition among some Democrats to continuing the war. And the pressure on Obama from Capitol Hill is likely to grow if sending reinforcements doesn't yield quick progress on the ground. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Weighs the Cost of an Afghan Surge | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Three days before, according to McCullough, Khalik had been among several Afghans caught in the middle of a Taliban attack on a U.S. battalion's foot patrols, on the road between the Helmand villages of Bagrabat and Hazarapas. "My men were walking on the road," he told Haji Assidullah and his fellow elder Jon Mohammed. "The car with these men [the detainees] sped up, drove right at them, didn't stop, almost hit two of my men, then the car behind that one stopped. Three men got out and started firing at my men. Two others on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a 'Loyalty Oath' Ensure the Allegiance of Afghans? | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

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