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...Pierce, one of two professors of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 155r: The Biology of Insects, writes in an e-mail. But overcrowded students don’t need to worry about accommodating these new roommates around the clock. “Once the lights go off they kind of disappear,” says Melissa M. Garcia ’09, who is currently playing host to a swarm of ladybugs. This now-you-see-them-now-you-don’t behavior isn’t necessarily a good thing, as it leaves little room for meaningful attachments...
...result of crises in places like Iraq, Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria, which "create more fears, and speculators are very smart. They jump into the market and take this factor and create it as fear. They try to frighten the world. 'Oh, maybe the oil will be disappear. Oh, maybe there will be a war.' But with all the fears of the world, still the supply is very efficient...
...Harvard expands without concern for the residents of Allston and Brighton, many Allston residents (particularly those that rent their homes) will be priced out of the area and will have to move. For homeowners, the value of their house will rise, but the community that they joined will disappear, and in its place will be an inaccessible campus that resembles the bricked-off Business School...
...Except, of course, to disappear. Before filming his small part in 2008's He's Just Not That Into You, he hadn't acted in a movie for 2½ years. For Hollywoodland, the last movie in which he starred, his role as a faded former icon was a considerable change of pace. Tellingly, his name is not at all prominent on the Gone Baby Gone posters...
Harvard is a great place to nourish a guilty pleasure. It’s real easy: just lie to your roommate, something innocuous, like “I’m going to study in Lamont.” Then disappear for six hours of Magic: The Gathering or “Rock of Love with Bret Michaels,” shuffle back to your room bleary-eyed, and he or she will think nothing of it. What’s more, we assume that all our peers are constantly devoting themselves to the things we ourselves ought...