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...certain recent lunch featured a depressing amount of starch. Two kinds of fries. Two kinds of pasta. A chicken and cheese sandwich. Brown rice and more pasta at the pasta bar. The change hasn’t gone unnoticed. The mumbling I’ve overheard lately goes above and beyond the usual mid-winter Massachusetts where’s-my-fresh-fruit blues. House open lists are flooded with anti-Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) rants: “It is THEIR [HUDS’] responsibility to get the funding they need to produce adequate meals...
...phallic-looking and people always joke about how it looks like a big penis in the Yard.”Phallic symbols aside, other students believe that general unawareness of art in the Yard stems from the tendency of certain statues such as John Harvard to attract an overwhelming amount of attention. “Besides being overshadowed by good old ‘John Harvard,’ the lesser-known sculptures around Harvard Yard are all starkly designed and dark in color, making them less than obvious to the passer-by,” Logan J. Pritchard...
...business," says Leonsis, who financed Nanking, a 2007 documentary about the "rape of Nanking," and Kicking It, a film about the Homeless World Cup, which premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. "Filmanthropy changes the metrics of measurement from box office and revenues to number of volunteers and amount of money raised." As august a body as the United Nations is getting in on the act, announcing in January a $100 million U.N. film fund aimed at combatting stereotypes--in other words, undoing the work of almost all the other media...
...outside extreme examples like the space program, but new companies like the California-based Thermo Life can produce energy from relatively small temperature differentials. Right now it's used mostly to power rechargeable batteries in wireless devices, but as the technology improves, it could begin to harness the vast amount of energy lost as heat in the fossil-fuel plants that provide most of our electricity. "Sixty percent of the world's energy is wasted as heat," says Rama Venkatasubramanian, a thermoelectric expert at the research firm RTI International in North Carolina. "If we could tap into just...
...increasing student complaints over house e-mail lists and through proposed protest campaigns. The Mather House e-mail list has had almost 200 e-mails detailing student dissatisfaction with HUDS food, according to Mather Undergraduate Council Representative Arvind H. Vaz ’08. “The amount of anger and resentment, I’ve never seen before,” he said. “It’s astounding.” According to Mayer’s open letter, HUDS has implemented immediate menu changes in response to the complaints, starting with yesterday?...