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...colors are uplifting, but the message is a bit more sinister,” explains White. A cluster of flat, geometric figures without feet stand on an island surrounded by water, representing the general state of life under the restrictive government. “There’s nowhere to go and they have no feet, no way to get there,” she says. White discusses the artwork that she displays with the artists themselves, allowing her to pass along the crucial political undercurrents to her gallery’s visitors...
Gropius Complex, a cluster of five small dorms attached to HLS’s Harkness Commons, is the only spot on Harvard’s campus to report peeping incidents since September...
...were health authorities, who initially feared that the Nguyen family cluster meant the H5N1 virus?which usually only spreads from bird to human in isolated cases?might now be moving from person to person. Since the disease first began jumping from birds to people in 1997, scientists have been worried that the lethal virus could mutate to gain the ability to transmit from one person to another as easily as a normal human-flu virus. That would open the door for a global influenza pandemic that could kill millions...
Bottoms up! According to a study in the journal Diabetes Care, there's a new benefit from indulging in a bit of the drink. People who consume moderate amounts of alcohol appear to be less likely to develop metabolic syndrome--a cluster of symptoms including a large waist, high blood pressure and low levels of good cholesterol--which can lead to diabetes and heart disease. In a study of 8,125 subjects, those who sipped up to 19 drinks a month were 35% less likely than nondrinkers to have the syndrome. Consuming more than 20 drinks a month--beer...
Meyer is currently in search of the right person to place in the spot vacated this summer by Jeffrey B. Larson, who managed foreign equities for the University. In the interim, a conspicuous cluster of desks on the trading floor, where Larson and his staff of 14 used to work, lies empty in their absence. Larson left the management company this summer to start his own hedge fund, Sowood Capital, backed in part by Harvard’s money...