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...learn their lessons and think freely." Until recently, the four toilets shared by Gafft's 1,266 pupils were filthy, and girls like Genet Solomon avoided using them. "Before, I would get sick once a month," says Solomon, 12. Then the school built three simple pit latrines in cinder-block cubicles. A sanitation club began encouraging students to wash their hands after using the toilet and before meals, a simple way of reducing the risk of diarrheal illnesses. Now, fewer than 20% of the students fall ill. Solomon has been sick once in the past six months. "Hand washing...
...equipment with him as he walked through Ireland’s lush landscape. The technique that Sullivan used to make the photographs is a complicated, exacting one. The chips found in all digital cameras are extremely sensitive to infrared radiation, Sullivan says. “They put an infrared blocking filter [in digital cameras]” he explains. “So what it does is prevent the infrared information from entering the chip. “I knew if I took the filter off, it would be very, very sensitive to infrared radiation, and it gives me very...
...complex’s designers, Melissa DelVecchio of Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The Everett Street Garage won’t be the only building bulldozed in the project. The Wyeth Hall dorm will be demolished to make room for the new kid on the Mass Ave. block. The blueprint, unveiled last night at a Pound Hall information session, includes large windows and open spaces—meant to bring light in from outside, DelVecchio said. The Law School campus already boasts several architectural landmarks. H. H. Richardson, a leader of the Romanesque Revival movement, designed Austin Hall in the early...
...participants speak of the corps in beatific terms: according to them, TFA is the hardest job on the block, and the most rewarding. “In terms of my mindset and my confidence, Teach for America has been life-changing for me,” says Kristi L. Jobson ’06, a former FM editor who now teaches middle school students in the Bronx...
...Suzie and Katie] are proving to our opponents that they’ve got to honor everybody,” Weiss said, referring to last Friday’s match at Dartmouth in which Turley-Molony exploded for 18 kills after the Big Green tried to triple-block Trimble...