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They say democracy is about choice, and returning residents of three residential Houses found their toilet-draining options doubled when they returned to Cambridge this year: Eliot, Kirkland, and Dunster Houses installed dual-flush handles in an initiative to reduce water waste. A standard downward push uses a mere 1.6 gallons, a standard amount for a low-flow toilet. But bathroom-goers will be able to save even more water with an upward push on the handle—let’s call it “flush number one”—which is intended...
...Studies needs a major overhaul—more senior faculty, modernization of the concentration tracks system, more contemporary readings—but that hasn’t happened yet, and it may never at this pace. Social Studies is on a plateau right now, maybe even heading towards a downward slope. It has become a complacent concentration—waiting for good students who flock to it. A supposed complaint from Gov is that Social Studies takes the good students away. But sooner or later, its stalled reforms will catch up with it.Moreover, don’t take Social Studies...
...McEnroe and nerveless Swede Bjorn Borg, that drove the sport to its heights. Since 1992, the year Jimmy and Mac finally hung up their racquets, the number of Americans playing tennis has fallen 36%, to 11 million, according to the National Sporting Goods Association. Television ratings have trended downward...
...Severgnini's book is a bit like a lawyer's defense against a long line of pessimists. Luigi Barzini, a foreign correspondent and prolific writer, in perhaps the most authoritative of Italian portraits, described a country resigned to a downward spiral in his classic book, The Italians. Barzini paints his people as peddlers of "ruses to defeat boredom and discipline, to forget disgrace and misfortune, to lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based...
...unaware of the dark paths lying ahead. But 936 pages of evidence taken from the killers' homes and cars were released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office on Thursday, and a notebook kept by Eric's father, Wayne, details a parent's involvement in his child's downward spiral. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. They then killed themselves in the school library...