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...meantime, the mine continues to be worked by thousands of illegal miners such as Henri González. Laboring under a sweltering sun, he blasts a water cannon against clay to loosen any tiny gold-bearing nuggets. He then extracts the gold with mercury, which sticks to gold like glue. "Sometimes I spend 15 days at a time in here without finding anything," he says. Like most of his fellow miners, González, 29, typically earns only enough to afford a shack made of zinc sheets and tree branches, set in a seedy mining camp where kids play in mercury-contaminated...
...senior Vincent Porter said. “To get third was a good feeling after suffering some rough breaks.”The strong Sunday effort saved Harvard from a middle-of-the-road finish after a frustrating Saturday. Manning the A-division, juniors Clay Johnson and Kristen Lynch finished dead last out of eighteen competing teams in two of the first eight races. They also ended the regatta’s first half on a disappointing note, coming in 15th in the day’s final race.Porter and fellow senior Ruth Schlitz, sailing in the B-division...
...have preferred to be members of other committees—are too preoccupied with providing services like shuttles to the Game and do not devote enough time to plan campus-wide events. “The SEC can take risks,” said UC Vice President Clay T. Capp ’06. “There is no freedom to be creative on CLC.” As mandated by the UC’s constitution, the amendment will be debated at next week’s meeting before a final vote is held two weeks from...
...CLAY SHIRKY, writer and technology consultant: But look at Meetup.com The most active users are stay-at-home moms. In the suburbanized, two-career U.S., social capital has moved away from the neighborhood and toward work. The stay-at-home moms are actually now remarkably disadvantaged in terms of social capital. We're used to thinking everything is going to get more and more virtual until we're these big floaty video heads, but actually there is a return of the real, as we figure out how to use this stuff to have real-world encounters...
Also at yesterday’s meeting, UC Vice President Clay T. Capp ’06 announced that the Rules Committee will present legislation within the next few weeks that will recommend creating a social programming board and reorganizing the Campus Life Committee...