Word: concerned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Macbook is not only formidably heavy—at 6.8 pounds, it’s nearly as hefty as an AK-47 assault rifle—but also suffers from poor construction. Over the past few months, Lenovo, Asus, and many other laptop manufacturers have made durability their top concern. By contrast, Apple’s Macbooks, much like their organic counterparts, can’t survive a fall of even just a few inches. [see correction below...
...every morning, allowing students to read America’s paper of record as they grabbed a bite on the way to class. These few newspapers pierced the proverbial “Harvard bubble” and sparked plenty of breakfast table discussions of issues of national and global concern. And undergraduates responded: the UC received more than 350 notes from students who enjoyed being able to read the Times. Each copy of the Times was surely worth the mere cents it cost to get them into dining halls. Last year, however, the UC voted against continuing the program. Thankfully...
...democracy, Massachusetts has an obligation to support the people of Burma,” a senior using the pseudonym Shanti Maug told the council last night. The senior, the president of Harvard Burma Action Movement, said she did not want her real name or photograph made public out of concern for family members still in Myanmar. In recent months, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has been rocked by a wave of protests against the military government, prompting renewed calls for democracy from some foreign governments and organizations. Under the bill, Massachusetts would use its power as a shareholder in companies...
...vice could soon be only a Blue Line ride away. But such opponents of Patrick’s casino plan must realize the greater good that it figures to do for the Commonwealth as a whole. Massachusetts faces a number of problems with which Harvard students rarely, if ever, concern themselves. Many residents are being pushed out of the state by mounting costs, including Massachusetts’ notorious property tax. Furthermore, casinos in nearby Connecticut already drain huge amounts of gambling money from Massachusetts pockets. Patrick’s plan would keep that money within the commonwealth, filling the State...
However, some Harvard faculty expressed concern that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory—which operated as a eugenics lab in the early twentieth century—may have more trouble fundraising given Watson’s departure...