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...We’re on the East Coast where lobster is plentiful and is part of the New England experience,” wrote Teo P. Nicolais ’06. “Lobster has a campus unifying effect unlike any other crustacean...
Loker demonstrates that building a successful student center requires real leadership from the Harvard administration. It cannot be a watered-down compromise, and it cannot be planned according to a few administrators’ conceptions of what students want. If Harvard College thinks it can continue to coast by on its name alone—without providing the sort of top notch facilities and social life consumers of higher education have come to expect—it is surely mistaken. The College’s future is by no means certain, and the laws of demand and supply will...
...sponge. Instead, they have become instruments of death-powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. Last Monday, Mary Anne Bantucan, a 34-year-old schoolteacher from Maragondon, was returning to her hometown from Infanta in a jeepney with her mother and eight other passengers when Typhoon Winnie hit the coast. "I saw this house being swept away in its entirety," she recalls, "and the cars, vans and jeeps behind us were all washed away." Then came a landslide of mud clotted with felled trees that had yet to be hauled to the sawmill. "The road was blocked by logs...
...Adventure seekers: if bungee jumping and whitewater rafting have lost their thrill, how about trying the new Shark Bay attraction at Sea World, tel: (61-7) 5588 2205, on Australia's Gold Coast? This brand-new adrenaline rush allows you-using a snorkel or, if you're a certified diver, via a scuba dive-to come face-to-face with some of our most feared predators. Either way, you'll swim in a reef lagoon accompanied by a qualified dive leader, with an underwater educational trail to follow...
...trees, so they no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. When Typhoon Winnie hit the coast last Monday, said one resident: "I saw this house being swept away in its entirety, and cars, vans and jeeps were all washed away." By the time Typhoon Nanmadol, which hit land late Thursday, had moved away from the coast, at least 640 people were confirmed dead and nearly 400 were missing. Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. Soldiers slogged through...