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...Cold River in southwest New Hampshire lies a wooded town of slow streams and defunct mills, a relic of distant New England days.It’s called Alstead, population 1,944. On one late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless...
...When you go out for a 17 or 18 mile run on Saturday morning, you’re pretty much done for the rest of the day,” said McNamara. “If you look at a map of Boston, there are all these distant places,” said participant Peter A. Lee ’07. “And you just run to them.” Members of the HCMC will run in the 110th Boston Marathon on April...
...flocks - he has 16,000 Naked Neck chickens - inside, but warns that keeping them cooped up won't work. "These birds are genetically suited to being outdoors," he says. "Put them inside and they'll peck each other to death." Laffitte sees consumer anxiety as evidence of how distant the French have become from life on the farm. "People don't like to be reminded that what they're eating was once a living thing, and that getting it to their table is a complicated exercise," he says. Laffitte hopes that migratory birds will stay away from his hens...
Yale ranked a distant 11th with $285.7 million...
...expanding undergraduates’ curricular opportunities, the Faculty can use this reform to benefit undergraduates throughout the College. And concentration choice should be delayed until the middle of sophomore so that freshmen are no longer unduly constrained in their course selections.While some of these proposed reforms seem inconsequential and distant to the undergraduates of the present, others are far more immediate: financial aid should help to pay for summer experiences abroad, and the student earnings expectations for the summertime, which help to determine financial aid packages, should be lowered to permit more summer travel. All of this should be done...