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Three months of hell. How does twelve straight weeks of school without a single day off sound to you? Well, that's one of the wonderful features of the new plan. Currently students enjoy Columbus and Veterans Days, welcome respites from the monotony of the fall term. These islands of sanity amid a sea of midterm exams allow students to catch up on a problem set or a paper, or just catch their breath. The new calendar would bring no vacation until Thanksgiving, which would remain a two-day recess. Yale and Penn at least have either a week...
...Climbing Sculpture, a twostory suspended puzzle piece climbing maze; Climbing the Wall, a rock climbing exhibit; El Mercade De Barrio, a replica of a Latino neighborhood market in Boston; Teen Tokyo, an exhibition on fashion, food, sports, music, art and school and family life for kids in Japan; Columbus: Through Native American Eyes, a reexamination of the discovery of America from both Columbus and the Native American perspectives...
...ghosts of Columbus and his fellow European explorers can breathe a bit easier. They have long been accused of slaying New World natives not just with swords but also with germs. Supposedly, the sailors -- and eventual settlers -- brought with them the bugs for illnesses unknown in the Americas, including smallpox, measles, influenza, malaria and tuberculosis. Never having been exposed to these ailments, natives had no immunity. Now, though, the European invaders have been exonerated as the carriers of at least one disease to the New World. Scientists said last week that they had found DNA from the TB bacterium...
...mystery: How did TB get to the Americas? Did people migrating from Asia across the Bering Sea land bridge take the disease to the new land? Those travelers, thousands of years earlier than Columbus, may have carried the answer to their graves. If so, scientists may one day unearth...
SCIENCE: Don't Blame Columbus...