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...even though Harvard has a $14.4 billion endowment salted away, only a little trickles down to student groups--Harvard believes in self-sufficiency. Pleas for a student center have fallen on deaf ears, though the College's purchase of the Hasty Pudding building may help ease the theatrical space crunch...
...daily wardrobe. For those who’ve stepped outside the boundaries of a typical Jansport backpack, the chosen bag represents not only one’s fashion conscientiousness, but also speaks a thousand words about individual personality. Whether it’s uptown chic or granola crunch, the bag carries a voice of its own, dictating one’s place in Harvard’s see and be scene. But isn’t it really what’s inside that counts? Read on, and decide for yourself...
...this simple picture, if the gravitational force is strong enough to bring expansion to a halt, the universe is destined to collapse, ultimately dissolving into a fireball--a Big Crunch that amounts to the Big Bang run in reverse. If it's not, and expansion wins out, then the universe will eventually grow unpleasantly dark and cold. Stars produce energy by fusing light atomic nuclei, mainly hydrogen and helium, into heavier ones. When the hydrogen and helium run low, old stars will sputter out without any new ones to take their place, and the universe will gradually fade to black...
Either fate looks like curtains for life. If the end comes in fire, the Big Crunch would melt down everything, even subatomic particles. If, on the other hand, the universe winds up cold and dark, life might hang on for a long time--say, by extracting gravitational energy from black holes. But trying to make a living once everything has subsided to pretty much the same temperature--a tad above absolute zero--is like trying to run a water mill on a dead-still pond...
...recent AFL-CIO-sponsored poll of union members revealed that in 51% of working families, mothers and fathers work opposing shifts. This is one way around the child-care crunch, but the exhaustion and lack of familial connection of "ships passing in the night" parenting is hardly a solution. Parents working early and late shifts often turn to the neighbor network, sharing child-care duties with co-workers or plugging in to the tried and true low-tech child-care referral service found on bulletin boards at churches, pediatricians' offices and schools. But even when "the village" takes a hand...