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...students that would foster community among undergraduates. Student groups are the spirit of undergraduate life on campus, and the University should commit itself to establishing a centrally-located community for our activities. Even if construction is not a viable option because of limited property space, the University could convert the Inn at Harvard--which will be in Harvard's hands in 13 years--into a student center...
...latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into MP3 files, usually in violation of copyright. But even in the mid-'90s, when faster computers and high-bandwidth connections to the Internet made it possible to seek and find MP3 files, ripping CDs was a tedious process...
...Yanomami are the celebrities of the rain forest. No tribe on the planet is more lauded, defamed, protected, exploited and fought over. Best sellers chronicle their warlike savagery. Missionaries convert them. Gold miners massacre them. And TV movies zoom in on their loincloths and painted faces, their shaman magic and hallucinogenic habits...
...first half ended scoreless, with both offenses sputtering. Harvard controlled the ball for much of that half, but failed to convert on either of its two excellent scoring opportunities...
Your article on rising temperatures and the thinning of Arctic sea ice was an eye opener. It is time to realize that deposits of fossil fuels are nature's garbage dumps and that we need to think seriously of ways to cease using this garbage in our biosphere. To convert futile complaints about greenhouse gases into positive action, we should free all non-fossil-carbon energy technologies from taxes for five or even 10 years of active production and sales. There is nothing like the lure of no taxes to stimulate businesses to come up with creative solutions to "insoluble...