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...traffic restrictions were very effective,” she said. The November 2006 program “is the first of a series of experiments [leading to the] Olympic Games in 2008. I’m sure they’ll do similar things or even larger [restrictions] in August 2008.” Chris Nielsen, the executive director of the China Project at Harvard, said that Chinese officials consider the Beijing Olympics to be a “showcase” of the country’s rapid development, and that Chinese officials do not want air pollution...
...August 2003, 15 months after his initial detainment, Yang was put on trial on charges of espionage and visa violations, and eventually sentenced to five years in prison. Yang’s trial was closed to public observers on the grounds that it concerned state secrets...
...particular areas of expertise, and anemic implementing legislation that leaves many of the important details of implementation to the whims of an all-powerful standing committee, the new system threatens to suffer from the same forces of accretion that have watered down the Core. For better or worse, our august professorate cannot think in terms abstracted from individual disciplines and cannot let go of the temptation to herd students into their classrooms by requirement. Thus, we can foresee nothing but inevitable failure in a program which tries to abolish all such intellectual parochialism when such sectarian loyalties abide so deeply...
...recognize that club sports provide an opportunity for undergraduate social interaction and a much-needed break from academic stress. Team members hail from different houses so teams can promote a campus-wide sense of community. Club sports also offer students exercise and the psychological benefits that accompany it; an August 2006 study in the journal “Stress & Health” found, in college students, a significant negative relationship between physical activity and self-reported anxiety. Were club sports teams better funded, and by extension, less expensive for individual participants, more students would join and benefit from them...
...honored along with 13 of his fellow teammates as an ECAC All-Academic honoree.However, with graduation only a month away, Reese will soon be able to devote his full attention to hockey. Although his contract with the Wolfpack and the Rangers organization only runs through August, Reese, a Pittsburgh native and longtime Penguins fan, has no desire to look any further than his current team should he ever make it to the NHL.“I’ve always wanted to play in Pittsburgh, but right now the Rangers are obviously my first choice,” Reese...