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...Warhol was a Fag.â€Surprisingly, the incident is not completely unique. Across Cambridge, murals and other public art pieces have recently been subject to peculiar attacks.THE VICTIMSA mural of fish painted on the stucco wall of a pool near Inman Square was defaced with giant white dollar signs. The muralist, Todd McKie, had been commissioned this past summer by the Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) for the purpose of decorating the outer and inner walls of the pool.A bus shelter was also commissioned for the stop near Russell Field on Rindge Avenue and a series of rose...
...voices of protest came at a particularly crucial juncture for science at Harvard, with the unveiling last week of a new plan to overhaul the Core Curriculum for undergraduates and key decisions looming over what the multi-billion-dollar Allston campus will look like...
...developing countries that's still unaffordable, but with greater use and greater manufacturing, that price will go down," says Roger I. Glass, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and former chief of the viral gastroenteritis unit at the cdc in Atlanta, Georgia. One dollar is about the price that Thai doctor Wandee would like to pay for the rotavirus vaccine. Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea in Thai children today. In the 40 years since Wandee began championing oral rehydration at the Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok, deaths from diarrhea have dropped...
Nevertheless, even a multibillion-dollar chain like Zara needs ideas. And a designer like Nicolas Ghesquière, who has been in fashion's driving seat of late with his razor-sharp focus on silhouette and tailoring, can still turn the business on its head. His buglike silhouette of skinny black legs and poufy miniskirts, first shown last February, has resurfaced on countless other runways this season. Fashion insiders--the people who determine which trends will make it onto department-store shelves or fashion-magazine covers and, eventually, to Zara--need a bad boy to shock them into a new look...
...more or less unscathed. Specifically, only a hundred of Harvard’s roughly 6,000 undergraduates are escaping the ivory tower this semester, despite lucrative policies implemented by former President Summers intended to encourage international study. For example, Harvard students only have to pay the relatively small thousand-dollar student services fee to the Office of International Programs should they study abroad...