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...next five years, in part by cutting nearly $13 billion from Medicaid and food stamps. But the legislation passed only after House Republicans suffered a rare defeat--when 22 of them sided with Democrats and voted down a spending bill to cut $8 billion in funding to fight bird...
...most children have just graduated to watching “Sesame Street.” But by that tender age, little Jonathan A. Cohler ’88 had already traded in Big Bird for the big, bad world of the clarinet. Childhood talent matured into adult honors. Prior to attending Harvard, Cohler honed his musical skills just around the corner, under teacher Pasquale Cardillo, the principal clarinetist of the Boston Pops. In his first year at Harvard, Cohler won a fellowship from the world-renowned Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, becoming its youngest member. “Harvard...
...must stop this ravenous beast while we still have the chance. We must cut off its life blood. We must reduce its budget.Now I am not suggesting that everyone immediately opt-out of the termbill fee and completely cripple the Council’s ability to function. (A little bird told me, however, that one can still opt-out and immediately have one’s termbill credited for $75 at https://sfsportal.harvard.edu/portal/ugcfwaiver even though the website says the cutoff for doing so was November 1.) Such a move would force massive cuts from grants to student groups that...
...years ago in TIME In 1997, the first human outbreak of BIRD FLU in Hong Kong sounded a warning for the future. So far, the new virus has shown no evidence of reassortment. The fact that the outbreak happened before Hong Kong's regular flu season reduced opportunities for reassortment, as did the prompt slaughter of the chickens. What researchers fear most is that someone infected with a common flu strain will also become infected with H5, and thus become an inadvertent mixing chamber for the production of a wholly new virus...
...stagnant wetlands near the Alewife MBTA station, the bird calls are deafening. Hundreds of wrens swoop through the head-high reeds in dizzy spirals and whorls.But change is coming for the 90 species of birds, from hawks to owls, that call the wetlands home. The construction of the new Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) building in Alewife will lead to the removal of some nesting places, but also, community activists hope, open up the wetlands to a much broader range of animal and plant species in one of Cambridge’s wildest spaces.In addition to the birds...