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...Vancouver. Alas, strict phytosanitary requirements, which guard against the importation of bugs, have so far kept Kandahari pomegranates out of the U.S. Stoddard predicts that next year's harvest will be as big as 68,000 tons, with exports rising to as much as 3,000 tons. "The demand we're seeing has been incredible," he told me by phone from Kabul. "And this is a licit agricultural product ? something that there's a lot of pride...
...arriving here in Cambridge; they exhibit the same blatant lack of conscientiousness in laundry rooms across campus. From Thayer to Quincy, Lowell to Cabot, this immaturity is rife at Harvard, and doesn’t seem to end until graduation (if at all). Washers and dryers are in high demand at peak hours, like Sunday afternoon and Thursday night. Students, overwhelmed by pressing commitments, naturally want to load and leave as quickly as possible. So, with all machines “in use,” it’s tempting to drag others’ clothes haphazardly from washers...
...politically minded students embarked on the sorts of adventures still cited today; the group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) sparked University Hall sit-ins disrupted by police force in 1968 and mobbed by the hundreds visiting then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in 1967 to demand answers about the Vietnam War. But by the year of their graduation, their inability to effect real social and political change had somewhat exhausted those who entered in 1963 so full of hope. The Vietnam War dragged on, with the worst yet to come, and the civil rights movement...
...Facebook’s policy change was a huge step in the right direction, and we hope it sets an important precedent in favor of Internet users’ rights that the entire industry follows.” Green said that MoveOn.org has not decided whether it will demand a complete opt-out, whereby Facebook users will be able to disable the ad tracking feature once and for all. Facebook faced a similar large-scale outcry from its users when it introduced the “News Feed” last year, but it has since received positive feedback about...
...very inappropriate way,” she said. The problem of illegal immigrants has been a powerful political issue in recent years because of conflicts over services, especially the increased burden on local schools and hospitals, Preston said. While this new population is helping to meet the demand for labor, “how those people are incorporated into American society will have a enormous impact on the tenure of American society,” Preston said in an interview after the event. According to President of Fuerza Latina Juan S. Arias ’09, the topic of immigration...