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...island of Leros, near the Turkish coast. They arrived in Greece without their parents, a worrisome pattern immigration experts say is increasingly common. Most of the 121 children held on the island are from Afghanistan, but there are also Palestinians and Eritrians, said Sophia Ioannou, spokeswoman for the Greek branch of the humanitarian aid group Médecins du Monde (MdM). She said all the children were crammed into a single facility without enough beds or toilets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Migrants on Hunger Strike | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...imagine someone working very hard to not branch out very much, but I don’t think that will be the norm,” he said. “If, as I expect, it’ll be one in 300, I’m just not going to worry about...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed’s eight categories, broader than the Core’s, will push students less outside of their concentrations | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...Eliot House Dining Hall when she and her House tutor entered the Eliot courtyard after reading an e-mail sent over the House’s open list. “There was the skin, the body, and the head of a goat draped over a tree branch,” Means said. “On the gate facing Memorial Drive there was a head impaled, literally impaled. A post was stuck up its neck and it was facing the sky.” The animal remains had come from preparations for Dunster House’s annual spring...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eliot Awakens To Dead Animal | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

Williams, who plans to serve in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal branch or the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) and eventually the Foreign Service, also said she hopes to see ROTC back on Harvard’s campus to dispel some “myths and stereotypes associated with the military...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Riding With the Paul Revere Battalion | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...loops through a distant sound system in the near vacant parking lot of Hong Kong Disneyland's multi-billion-dollar theme park. It's 2 p.m. on Sunday, a peak hour for family fun, but Hong Kong's Magical Kingdom is a little short on enchanted subjects. The fifth branch of the Happiest Place on Earth has been criticized for being too small and offering too few rides, but the The Walt Disney Company hopes to inject a little fairy dust into the place by adding a hitherto missing ingredient: the iconic "It's A Small World" ride - a boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fifth Happiest Place on Earth | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

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