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...Georgian neighbor, Harvard Business School (HBS). The stairwells smell like rotting metal and the concrete steps are worn. American flags and Easter baskets adorn the scratched red and blue doors. Bicycles and television buzz overflow into the landings. Inside the apartments there is wall-to-wall carpeting, a couch, a television. Some contain two stories and many open onto private decks. In 1995, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) identified the apartments as “troubled” property in need of repairs to remain viable. Aware that the apartments needed resources for extensive renovation?...
...March of last year, Cosgriff, a big, 6’7 left-hander for the Harvard team, sat slumped and emotionless on the couch at his home in the New York area, doing absolutely nothing. After months of treatment, he was mired in his third cycle of chemotherapy for testicular cancer...
Last Tuesday, I got really drunk at a certain Square establishment. I apparently made it to the Quincy lobby and passed out on the couch, because two tutors shook me awake the next morning and told me that I should go to my room and wash the pen off my face before anyone else saw me. Not only am I too embarrassed to go back to the bar where I puked in the bathroom, but now I’m also embarrassed to ever go to Quincy again. Thoughts...
...tutors, well, they were college kids once too. They have seen drunk people before, and probably have had their fair share of “crazy night” stories. As with the bar experience, you aren’t the first to pass out on that couch. It really is quite convenient and at least you passed out there instead of on Plympton Street...
...maybe you’re more likely to go get it,” Wiecha said. “This is the first time that we have evidence that television drives up calorie intake, independent of exercise.” To test the correlation between calories and couch potatoes, the Harvard researchers—including Wiecha, Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology Steven L. Gortmaker, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Society Karen E. Peterson, Research Fellow Juhee Kim, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics David S. Ludwig—conducted an observational study with over 500 children in four Boston...