Word: cage
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...employees won’t be laid off by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, following an effort by students and activists to save the employees’ jobs. The employees said they were told on Oct. 3 they would lose their posts because some of their animal cage-washing duties could be completed by machines. But the four employees charged that they were actually to be fired because of their race and ethnicity. In recent weeks, students have rallied around them, forming a group to protest alleged racial discrimination against Harvard employees. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman...
...such a show, HBC needs money. Fundraising efforts so far have included the “Date-A-Dancer” date auction, which was held Oct. 28 in the Quincy Cage...
...battling a lawsuit seeking to outlaw sow crates as well as the confinement of veal calves and the force-molting of hens through two-week starvation-a practice which increases egg production. Meanwhile, more than 100 college cafeterias nationwide, under pressure from students, have switched to so-called "cage-free" eggs from chickens that are allowed to roam in sheds, rather than lay in crowded metal cages. And more consumers across the country are buying meat labeled as coming from humanely raised animals...
...prisoners are placed in chain-link enclosures called "dog runs," one per cage. Their cuffs are removed through a door slot. This is the only time the inmates actually see and interact with one another. "It is awkward adjusting my voice from the necessary yell of the cell block to the face-to-face conversation in the yard," Rudolph writes. "Unlike me the Arabs don't adjust the volume." Rudolph describes how his neighbors pair up in their separate runs and then "walk the length of the cage in unison, back and forth, yelling as they...
...underrated 2005 film, “The Weather Man,” Michael Caine provides invaluable advice to his son, Nicholas Cage, who is suffering from an existential crisis. In his characteristic British accent, Caine says: “Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. ‘Easy’ doesn’t enter into grown-up life.” At this stage, no wiser words could be applied to the Harvard College Curricular Review.For the last...