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...other public service activities that I wanted to do,” she says, thinking back to the less certain days many freshmen spend seeking their niches in their new and often overwhelming surroundings. In Wong’s case, that spark generated as a prefrosh became a roaring blaze almost immediately. “After my first performance, I knew this is what I wanted...
...terms, he chastised the Faculty for alleged recalcitrance in the face of the changes he aggressively sought to make.“There is only one important question on which history will judge us,” Summers said. “Did we do all we could to blaze new paths for higher education and change the world through our teaching and research? Or did we continue to do traditional things in traditional ways, enjoying the greater comfort that increased resources provide?”At the Faculty meeting two weeks ago, Summers promised to offer...
...South Australia. As a founder of Irrunytju Arts, Tommy Watson, a Pitjantjatjara man in his late 60s, is one of the new kids on the block. But with the eye-popping palette of his enamel-fired ceiling-which depicts a rock hole in his grandfather's country in a blaze of hot pink, green and red-we see the full bloom of the Western Desert three storeys above a Paris street...
...flung across 50,000 sq km in southern Nigeria, is also home to some of Africa's poorest people, and some of its worst environmental destruction. There are villages without power, water, health clinics or schools; pipelines that scar the earth; oil slicks that shimmer on rivers; flares that blaze bright and loud, burning off the gas that gushes to the surface along with the sweet crude. So poor are most who live in the Delta that some are prepared to risk their lives for a bucketful of fuel. Last week, more than 150 people died when an oil pipeline...
Every once in a while, a story about a bizarre pharmaceutical side effect races through the media like a brush fire on a dry, windy day. This time the blaze is coming from the hot-selling sleeping pill called Ambien and its apparent ability to compel some users to eat voraciously in their sleep. Never mind the fact that this particular side effect is seemingly rare--or that it was first reported four years ago. Thousands of sleep-deprived Americans are now wondering if Ambien could turn them into mega-munching zombies...