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Battery hens, as hens raised in small cages are called, are amongst the worst abused animals in modern agriculture. Exempted from the federal Animal Welfare Act, they are packed in tiers of wire cages, sometimes with less space to move about than a letter-sized piece of paper...
...mother’s funeral. A journalist friend offers Ka the opportunity to see what Turkey is “really like” after his absence: Ka will travel to the remote hamlet of Kars near the Russian border to cover a story on a series of suicides amongst female students at the Institute of Education, which has enforced a state ban on the wearing of head scarves in educational institutions.Ka’s friend suggests an additional incentive for the trip: the beautiful and mysterious Ipek, whom Ka has always had a thing for, has separated from...
Over the weekend, the Harvard men’s and women’s ski teams traveled to Prospect Mountain, Vt., to participate in the Williams College Winter Carnival. Amidst grueling conditions and a tough field, the Crimson finished 10th amongst the participating universities with a total score of 345 points. The Dartmouth Big Green came out on top, winning its fifth straight carnival with a final tally of 898.0. The University of Vermont and Middlebury finished second and third with 843.0 and 806.5 points, respectively. In the alpine events, winds of upto 50 MPH and poor visibility provided tough...
...enough for James Blake. “James has an insatiable appetite,” Fish says. “He’s knocking on the door, but not quite able to open it.” Fish credits the change in Blake’s game to, amongst other things, his “monstrous athleticism”—which, if anything, will make for much flashier tennis and a bigger forehand for Blake in 2007. To the chagrin of Harvard’s women, it looks like Blake won’t be returning anytime...
...take-home exams already do. Nor is it liable to induce ADD in a generation already accustomed to simultaneously writing papers and posts to instant messenger. The main danger of the PDA’s campus invasion is the potential for it to become a must-have luxury item amongst students, proving yet again how unbearably wonkish and overly serious Harvard’s undergraduates...