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...custom wherein younger students served upperclassmen their meals on a twice-daily basis. The exhibit’s final theme, “Rule (Breaking) and Religion,” established unapproved behavior as a long-standing temptation for Harvard undergraduates. Gold buttons and pewter jewelry, dug from the dirt between Matthews and Grays, showed that Harvard students were more than willing to break the College’s Puritan “modesty” laws for the sake of good fashion. Alcohol and tobacco were also widely consumed by early Harvardians, despite prohibition from the Puritan Church...
...television screens once again beam images of refugees jamming the red dirt roads of central Africa, and radios broadcast the crackle of gunfire from forested hills, it's clear that something needs to be done. Troops may provide succour for now; but in the long run serious pressure needs to be brought to bear on political leaders until the fighting stops...
...flush toilet has remained largely the same since it's invention in 1596, the world it inhabits has changed drastically. City populations have mushroomed, sewers have become overburdened and water has become scarcer. Now, the flushing loo - that human innovation that lifted the industrialized world out of its own dirt, cholera and dysentery - is quickly becoming one of the more egregious instruments of waste in this time of acutely finite resources. "The world can't sustain this toilet," says Jack Sim, the founder of the World Toilet Organization - the other WTO - an organization that advocates for sustainable sanitation solutions...
...just been clasping Frederick’s supine form so possessively moments before. He did not notice her presence at first, and she watched in horror as he cast aside the spade and plunged his large, raw hands savagely into the freshly turned soil, over and over. Dirt flew from the holes he dug and sullied the pale, delicately veined petals of her petunias.He reached into a pouch that hung from his belt, and his red fist emerged full of seeds. He thrust them into the soil, and she gasped in sudden fury. How dare he! He was planting squash...
...vote for Bush, and McCain called Obama out on this false accusation, announcing, “If you wanted to run against George Bush, you should have ran four years ago.” McCain reminds America, “I’m older than dirt, I’ve got more scars than Frankenstein, but I’ve learned a few things along the way.” There is no excuse for jumping on the Obama bandwagon while ignoring fundamental truisms. American wellbeing and security are at stake, and humanity is justifiably nervous. In these final...