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...hours later, there's no real risk for a healthy person in the U.S. to ride mass transit - not with the outbreak as small as it is currently. It's true that crowded trains and subway cars can be a vector for disease transmission if sick people are on board. You can catch the flu if you're within about six feet of a sick person - otherwise known as the "breathing space" - who coughs or sneezes on you, and a small amount of the virus can survive on inanimate surfaces. But with just a tiny number of cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top 5 Swine Flu Don'ts | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...anything that I wanted to but also be as involved in theater as I wanted to be. I wanted to leave my options open,” Kline says. She immediately became involved with the dramatic arts at Harvard. Her freshman year she performed with, and was a board member of, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players, performed in the Dunster House Opera, and worked on light design in the Loeb Experimental Theater. From her start with musical theater, Kline moved to nearly every facet of dramatic arts possible. Her junior year she served as president of the Harvard...

Author: By Matt E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Allison B. Kline ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...shop, that’s the last four years in a nutshell,” Clark says. Beyond the rewards of hours spent listening to The Boss, technical theater has offered Clark a fulfilling creative medium. Clark became the HRDC tech liaison—a member of the HRDC board that oversees all technical aspects of productions and ensures the safety of all involved—his sophomore year, when the former tech liaison dropped out. He continued as tech liaison through his junior year. Clark’s love for carpentry, rigging, and lights began in middle school...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Benjamin T. Clark ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...that has made its mark on the department. Campbell will replace the current chair, economics professor James H. Stock, who has served out his three year term. In his 15th year at the University, Campbell specializes in asset pricing and macroeconomics. Since 2004, he has also served on the board of Harvard Management Company—the organization charged with managing Harvard’s endowment. Campbell spent this academic year on leave, though he remained in Cambridge for most of the year researching housing foreclosures. Campbell’s popular undergraduate offering “Economics 1763: Capital Markets?...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Campbell Chosen To Chair Economics Department | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...rebound on its own. Demand in the U.S. is simply too important to Asia's export machine for the region to experience a full recovery without an increase in American consumer spending. There are recent signs, however, that U.S. demand might also be poised for a rebound. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose in April by the most since 2005, signaling that American shoppers might be ready to start buying again. The U.S. government also revealed in late April that inventories in the U.S. fell by a record amount in the first quarter, which could mean inventories have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Signs of Hope for Asia's Hard-Hit Exporters | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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