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...series of minor and major injuries, scattered instances of the flu, and the absence of one key player from practice this week have left the Harvard football team at less than 100 per cent heading into tomorrow's home game versus Colgate...
...process, one exercises almost all of the 434 skeletal muscles in the human body, which are in turn composed of 250 million muscle fibers that account for 40 per cent of the body weight of the typical American male. In his article, "Frequently Asked Questions About Muscle, Fat, and Exercise," Dr. Ellington Darden bluntly concludes "in the performance of most sports, muscles literally contribute everything, while fat contributes nothing...
...with inflation. But more importantly, the University has made no concessions on benefits, the issue of central concern to most of the kitchen workers. Harvard now provides the dining hall workers with absurdly low pension payments--$90 a month after 25 years of service, and a 10 per cent reduction if a worker retires before age 62, and did not improve the pension plan in the contract offer. Nor does the contract increase Blue Cross coverage or offer a dental health plan. In addition, the workers want a clearer commitment to affirmative action by the University, especially at the managerial...
More than 700 Lebanese, an estimated 90 per cent civilians, have been killed in three extended battles since the current conflict broke out last February...
...union demonstrated its dual concern for patients and workers in the case of St. John of God, a convalescent hospital in Brighton that houses chronic care patients. The hospital was scheduled to be closed for a lack of funds, but doctors estimated that 30 per cent of the patients might die if they were moved. The union took up the case, lobbied against the closing -- and the hospital stayed open. Damman remembers how important the issue was to those involved, and how it felt to help them. "People were furious at the idea their relatives would have to be moved...