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...striving—in some cases, successfully—to follow in the footsteps of the Adams House Pool Theater and establish themselves as poplar institutions. FIXING A BROKEN ARROWPerhaps one of the more unique facilities on campus is the Bow and Arrow Press, a manual, moveable-type printing press located in the basement of Adams House. The students in charge of running the press—called “press masters”—are currently seeking university recognition as an official student group.“We’re looking...
...small town in Kenya's lush Rift Valley, arrows are scattered around a dusty, hay-littered compound. Men in plaid-checkered shirts construct bows and say they were forced to arm themselves for war. "We were using swords but they were not effective," says Sylvester, 24, slashing a knife in the air. "In a day we can make between 80 and 100 [arrows]," he adds, refusing to give his last name out of fear. Community members pool money together to buy the necessary tools in secret; the arrows are then distributed within the neighborhood. Local leaders know about the arrow...
...Africa, Greene says, there are "some islands of success" but troubling increases in HIV transmission in other regions. Public-health experts acknowledge that there is no one magic bullet, no single approach to defeat AIDS, and that even the potential success of prophylactic antiretroviral drugs is only one arrow in the medical quiver. "There are all kinds of variables," Greene cautions, including drug-resistance issues, evolving viruses, individual patterns of infection and complications due to other diseases like herpes, not to mention human behavior and cultural traditions that can interfere with prevention and treatment...
...travel up the Rift valley, the scale and fury of Kenya's southern division becomes ever more apparent. We enter a village called Kamosong, and 15 men surround the car. One is carrying a foot-long knife, another a hockey stick, a third a bow and arrow, a fourth a wooden club. A man who introduces himself as Thomas tells us the men are from the Kalenjin tribe of former President Daniel Arap Moi. "Have you got anyone in the back?" they ask Preston. "What's your name? Are you Kikuyu?" A few minutes further on, there is another roadblock...
...former owner of a Cambridge hair salon was convicted yesterday of raping a former Harvard undergraduate and sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison, a Middlesex district attorney spokesman said. Duncan W. Purdy, who ran About Hair, a salon and antique shop on Arrow Street, was found guilty of raping the 19-year-old woman in his store in March 2004, District Attorney Gerry Leone’s office said in a statement. The woman had come to the salon for a scheduled massage with Purdy, but was raped during the course of the massage, according to a statement...