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...spring. The Harvard College Democrats were one of seven student groups to receive money for travel expenses last semester from the fund. Though the Democrats requested $2000 to finance their trip to Bucks County, Pa. in October, they were only granted $750. The money allowed a couple dozen students to travel to Pennsylvania to canvass for the re-election of Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy and the election of then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama. “It was unquestionably helpful in funding our trip,” said Elise X. Liu ’11, the communications director...
Still, genius can be very hard to discern, and not just among the young. Simonton tells the story of a woman who was able to get fewer than a dozen of her poems published during her brief life. Her hard work availed her little - but the raw power of her imagery and metaphor lives on. Her name? Emily Dickinson...
...among bird populations, prompting concerns among some public-health experts that mainland health and veterinary authorities could be missing - or even concealing - the spread of the disease through poultry and wild birds. Hong Kong, where the first human cases of H5N1 infection were found in 1997, reported finding a dozen birds with the deadly strain of the virus earlier this year - a strong indication that the virus is very likely present in adjacent Guangdong province. But so far, Guangdong has reported no bird cases. Equally unusual is that after such a busy month of infections in China, reports of human...
...skies in the future. Though the number of unmanned aircraft is soaring, it hasn't kept pace with the demand in Afghanistan and Iraq, where requirements for full-motion video are growing 300% annually. For every F-22 that isn't bought, the Air Force could add about a dozen desperately needed drones to its fleet...
...F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company at The Factory Theatre in Boston, the residents of an old Russian village called Kulyenchikov are forever condemned to a life of stupidity. Thanks to a 200-year-old curse, Kulyenchikov is a place where flowers are known as fish and fourteen sheep equal two dozen until Tolchinsky arrives and attempts to reverse this affliction of idiocy. While “Fools” is certainly not Simon’s finest work, F.U.D.G.E.’s production balances the script’s failing attempt at humor with wonderful, nuanced performances, charming creative vision...