Word: attractions
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...Harvard’s ability to attract faculty does involve other factors too, like the New England charm of its picturesque campus. Sunstein, a native New Englander who attended both college and law school at Harvard, said he was “excited and thrilled” to return to his alma mater. “I love Cambridge,” he said. “It feels like home...
...more profound freedom has begun eroding, too: the freedom to mix with people from other backgrounds. She's headed off to school, in her red-checkered uniform, with the kids of middle-class Londoners, "people like us." We pay fees, but low ones, so the school tends to attract parents in the media, the public sector and small businesses. Our local state schools were too rough, too crowded or too religious, and the school where we'd sent our elder daughter, Julia, for a couple of years was too expensive and snooty. So Nicola's joining Julia at a school...
...every once in a while, but I never knew that doing push-ups to impress the ladies isn’t an exclusively Homo sapien mating tactic. As it turns out, color plays a big role in interactions between the sexes. Males typically are more colorful in order to attract females, though in the case of the Red-necked Phalarope, an arctic shore bird, the color and gender roles are reversed. It’s the females who attract the males with their brilliant colors and leave after the arrival of their young—the males care...
...built environment and skaters is not limited to New York, however. Boston has its own skating hotspots: Nichols and Charnoski point out the Government Center T Station and one disused swimming pool close to Harvard—whose exact location they refuse to reveal so as not to attract attention to the spot—as popular places for skaters to test out their skills.By offering teenagers the opportunity to invent new tricks, the public spaces gave a lot to skateboarding, but the reverse is also true. Skaters helped give life to places that previously had none, and which, without...
...charges against Vedan were made public, Nguyen, the Natural Resources and Environment Minister, conceded he was under a lot of pressure. "Many local officials have called me to say that we have to lower standards on the environment," the Natural Resources and Environment Minister said, "otherwise they can't attract foreign investors...