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Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a have-it-all kid who, upon graduating from college, resolved to flee his family for the Alaskan wilderness. Is Christopher a truth seeker, a defiant brat or some unknowable other? Director Sean Penn, adapting the Jon Krakauer bio-book, makes no judgments. He slowly spins this into a parable of one man's need for revelation, isolation and chilly transcendence...
Garbage collectors have historically set the bar for messy jobs. But laundry workers, particularly in hospitals, deal with a more perilous kind of waste. When bio-hazardous materials aren?t disposed of properly, they sometimes find their way into laundry rooms. "They have blood, needles, body parts, bits of fingers, everything in those bags," says a worker quoted in the Brennan Center report, "Unregulated Work in the Global City," referrring to the bags of hospital linens that he is required to wash...
...general public in a way we haven't seen before," says renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, who is on the ManyOne Foundation Board. "It can be a wonderful tool not only for science students, but really for anyone seeking credible information about any number of important topics: climate change, bio-diversity, conservation and so much more...
...When you power up your radio, you don’t know if you’re going to get Larry in Latvia or Bob over at the bio labs,” club member David Allred ’85 says...
...second step was the division of the biology and bio-chemistry concentrations into five new concentrations: chemical and physical biology, human evolutionary biology (HEB), ,olecular and cellular biology, neurobiology, and organismic and evolutionary biology. The Life Sciences initiative also took over the chemistry concentration, the social and cognitive neurosciences track in psychology and the biological anthropology concentration in Anthropology. While as a whole, this step was a well-planned movement to provide smaller concentrations to students, one problem existed: HEB was identical to biological anthropology in every way except that it replaced social anthropology and archaeology requirements with...