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About this time every year, Harvard undergraduates begin weighing their options for the summer. For 400 of them, Spring Clean-Up with Harvard’s Dorm Crew constitutes the first venture into an intense season full of financial internships, community service, and even the occasional family vacation...
...percentage point margin over his closest rival. Talk to the locals and you hear the rare sound of southerners pleased with the direction in which their town is headed. One morning in March, Pasquale Salandria, taking a break from his work on a city clean-up crew, gestures toward two new seaside cafés and a disco. "Ten years ago there was almost nothing here," he says. Indeed, the town of 3,000 now seems to strike a nice balance between dynamism and coastal pleasantness, favoring local sports facilities, for instance, over outsized tourist lodgings...
Mermaid's Palace (Chicken Socks, $14.95). Make a mermaid's home, furnish it with the punch-out bed and sea creatures, then accessorize your mermaid with shells and pearls. A little too fiddly for kids under about 7, and clean-up's a cow, but pretty engrossing...
...course, China's top leaders are keenly aware of this possibility. In an Oct. 15 speech during the Chinese Communist Party's congress, President Hu Jintao declared that fighting graft is critical to "the party and its very survival." But previous clean-up efforts have had little effect. Of the 133,467 officials who were investigated for corruption between 2003 and 2006, just 427 were referred to the judiciary for criminal proceedings, according to Ouyang Song, deputy head of the Party Central Committee's Organization Department. Despite some signs of improvement, such as a growing reliance on investigators from distant...
...brigade that is clearing debris from last week's earthquake that devastated this city and several others on Peru's central coast. He directs bulldozers along narrow streets, scooping up the remains of homes built years ago out of a mix of mud bricks and bamboo-like reeds. The clean-up sends clouds of dust into the air, recalling for residents the immediate aftermath of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck early in the evening...