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...only hold 1,500 people, but the Boston Police and Fire Departments agreed last month to make an exception for the Dylan concert. Mahan said he was optimistic the Boston officials would increase that cap by an extra 500, nearly tripling the legal limit imposed by the fire code. Harvard Concert Commission Director Justin H. Haan ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, said before the meeting he was “terribly enthusiastic” about the energy the concert generated...
...viewer is meant to empathize viscerally with Vera against the mores and legal code of her time. Leigh expects his audience to seethe that the only option most women had then in the case of undesired pregnancy was to bring someone like Vera into their homes—to let her inflate their wombs with a solution of hot water and soap, shockingly the same procedure recommended today by the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League...
...create a social alternative to the frat scene. At Harvard, there is no such thing. At other universities, there are spaces on campus run by and intended for women, people of color and religious minorities. In fact, Harvard’s “anti-discriminatory” code prohibits the creation of a women’s center—apparently such a space would bring exclusiveness to the university...
Other researchers have taken the science in a different direction, looking not for the genes that code for spirituality but for how that spirituality plays out in the brain. Neuroscientist Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has used several types of imaging systems to watch the brains of subjects as they meditate or pray. By measuring blood flow, he determines which regions are responsible for the feelings the volunteers experience. The deeper that people descend into meditation or prayer, Newberg found, the more active the frontal lobe and the limbic system become. The frontal lobe...
...military's initial report on the incident stated that the soldiers "raised some valid concerns" about the convoy mission. The commanding general ordered an inspection of the vehicles as well as an investigation to determine whether any of the soldiers violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Meanwhile, a coalition-forces spokesman denied families' claims that the reservists were being detained. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Boylan: "Things are getting a little out of control and have been exaggerated a little bit." --By Julie Rawe. With reporting by Christopher Allbritton, Alice Jackson Baughn and Constance E. Richards