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...fallout will be incomprehensible. Whatever social services and generosity that has come from the more wealthy nations will dry up along with the financial capacity that has created a history for large scale compassion. A hoarding of natural resources, especially those that are agriculturally based, would cause the cost of humanitarian aid to become unaffordable, especially when there is so little capital for eleemosynary efforts because of ruined economies. In places like East Africa, where millions of people look into the face of starvation every year, the misery could be apocalyptic...
...build a residential college system that would “bring into each group men from different parts of the country, men with different experience, and as far as possible social condition.” By 1931, all seven Houses had been built, funded—at a total cost of about $13 million—entirely by Harkness. In 2008 dollars, this would amount to over $155 million. The clamor of moving beds and bureaus signaled that this “national and democratic” microcosm Lowell and Harkness had envisioned was complete...
...tries to make students competitive applicants to a wide range of top-tier law schools, said Lee. In addition to not charging a fee, the program also offers a $3,000 stipend to offset the lost wages of a summer job. Though similar programs provide free or low-cost test prep services to needy students, none lend the institutional imprimatur of a prestigious law school such as Harvard or NYU—which might explain the large number of applicants it received in its first year. Applicants will be selected in a two-part process that considers the student?...
Harvard constantly tries to improve the mental health of its students, offering everything from mental-health weeks to relaxation classes to massage study breaks. It is neglecting, however, the most simple, rational, and cost-efficient treatment of all—time off from school. One can sadly only guess at what the Harvard student body’s brainpower could do given freedom in the winter wonderlands Cambridge skies cook up for them. Snow forts with n+1 housing? Intramural snowball fights at an A, B, and C level? All of these questions go unanswered when the Severs and Biolabs...
Potty Talk. RyanAir, the low-cost European carrier, floated the idea of charging customers 1 pound (about $1.45) to use in-flight toilets. It wasn't clear whether CEO Michael O'Leary was serious about implementing the fee, which he said would help lower ticket costs, or just courting media attention. Europeans may be accustomed to paying for using the facilities on trains and in public places, but let's hope domestic carriers don't latch on to the idea...