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...Harvard's new green initiative and Al Gore's recent speech in Tercentenary Theatre. Green is the new Crimson, baby. But although Harvard is digging that Chu is a passionate advocate for renewable energy, his passion for academics went somewhat...unappreciated by the Ivy Leagues in an earlier go-round. In his autobiography on the Nobel Prize web site, he writes of how he was rejected by all the Ivy League schools he applied to--including, FlyByBlog presumes, Harvard, where two cousins were attending. The relevant passage after the jump...
...China. Their matching algorithm, Waldorf said, “varies from country to country and culture to culture.” The company has been beset by lawsuits in recent years for not offering gay dating services. eHarmony rolled out a separate gay dating website called Compatible Partners earlier this week as part of a settlement of a 2008 New Jersey case. -Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu
...like an upperclassman.”But that doesn’t mean Jones hasn’t been playing the role of freshman. Always humble and ready to learn, Jones listens whenever an upperclassman or coach has advice to give. “Erik [Kuld] helped me out earlier this year,” Jones says. “Little things like keeping my elbow higher have helped me a lot. I’ve had to get used to the bigger blocks, so the upperclassmen have been working with me on those adjustments.”We?...
Pistachios are the latest nut to disappear from Harvard dining hall menus. The move comes in response to a warning issued earlier this week by the Food and Drug Administration about salmonella contamination of products from Setton Pistachios of Terra Bella, Inc. Just two months ago, Harvard University Dining Services eliminated all peanuts from their dishes in the wake of a salmonella outbreak attributed to several peanut products. The FDA and the California Department of Public Health is still investigating the incident, and Setton has voluntarily recalled around one million pounds of pistachios—both shelled and unshelled?...
Local smokers expressed mixed opinions about the federal tobacco tax increase that took effect yesterday. The tax, which increased the levy from $.39 per pack to $1.01 per pack, was approved earlier this year. For Massachusetts residents, this hike comes on top of the hefty $2.51 per pack state tax on cigarettes. Paul J. MacDonald, owner of Harvard Square tobacco shop Leavitt & Peirce, said that he was unhappy with the substantial tax increase. “We treat everybody like rockstars here [at Leavitt & Peirce.] And obviously the government feels the same way--they think that they have money like...