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...merit. There is actually very little grass left in Cambridge. Perhaps the most troubling aspect of urban life, however, is crime. Through the joint efforts of bicycle gropers and the armed bandits who periodically rob Harvard undergraduates, an evening in Cambridge has become an adventure suitable only for the brave. The recurring patterns of criminal activity around campus have nearly numbed me to the frightening reality of these offenses. Upon recently reading of Harvard’s high rate of crime compared to the rest of the Ivy League—with 466 burglaries in 2004, even if our definition...
Many of those who survived the quake have been made homeless. More than 3 million poor will brave a harsh winter, trying to survive. Those people need assistance. Pakistan's resources are grossly overtaxed. Help from the world's wealthy communities in this hour of need would have an everlasting impact...
...tales from our childhood—Cinderella and her pumpkin, Snow White and those seven dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty should always wear blue. Who didn’t long for Rapunzel’s long tresses? The moral of these memories: just one slipper, two kisses, three balls, and four brave princes later, these good females were rescued from bad fruit and several very wicked witches. In spite of the well-justified feminist disgust for these pathetic Disney damsels (has anyone really listened to Snow White’s pre-pubescent vocal tones?), I can’t help feeling nostalgic...
...fight an enemy like this, we need an army nimble as a virus, huge as hunger, brave as Marines. In this special report dedicated to global health, you will meet some of these defenders, models of not just charity but also ingenuity, nerve, patience and faith. There is the doctor building clinics in Rwanda, the motorcycle riders carrying medicines across roadless stretches of Uganda, the survivor of the refugee camps fighting TB in Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little...
...we’ve experienced a different Halloween than the one we grew we grew up with. A Halloween more about the “trick” than the “treat.” Feeling cheapened by this “Shalloween” alternative, we braved the downpours of Saturday afternoon to recapture the substance of the holiday: that meaty, orange pulp found in the perfect pumpkin. With our friends Stollichnaya and Cheddar Ted, we hit up Boston Common for the Life is good® Pumpkin Festival 2005. The goal was to set the Guinness world...