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...same way so that the chicks emerge on more or less the same day, the mother begins incubating her first and second eggs before laying the remaining ones in her clutch. That causes the babies to appear on successive days, which gives the first-arriving chick the earliest crack at the food and a 24-hour head start on growth. The second-hatched may not have too difficult a time catching up, but the third may struggle. The fourth and beyond will have the hardest go, getting pushed aside or even pecked to death if food, water and shelter become...
...silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest College record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650: these were the symbols of power transferred from former presidents Summers, Bok, and Rudenstine and Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 to President Drew G. Faust last Friday as she was officially installed. It was a formal, yet ebullient and optimistic day: one for reflecting on the forces that unite this great University and that will propel it to new heights in the future. In this context, the fiery speech that Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen...
...video made available online. Paintings by Max Beckmann from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Through Jan. 6, 2008 The three paintings by Max Beckmann on loan from the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich each represent very different stages in the German painter’s life and career. The earliest, “Dance in Baden-Baden” (1923) is an example of his social satire at its most exquisitely cutting. Beckmann finds the gruesome in the glamorous, as bored and beautiful women in profile dance with men whose eyes they won’t meet. 1932?...
...read themselves; the words leapt off the page and hovered in the air. When Johnson turns his attention to a longer narrative his authorial gifts are still very much present, but their luster is dimmed.He remains extremely capable of crafting images that burn themselves into your imagination. His earliest are his best: A just-shipped-over seaman callously shoots a monkey, only to realize that the monkey, in its death throes, is crying. “Its breath came out in sobs, and tears welled out of its eyes when it blinked.” A new recruit?...
...detect and treat the disease, especially in the Third World, where resources may be woefully lacking. There are 3.5 million women in the Indian city of Pune, and there is one comprehensive breast-care facility there. In South Africa only 5% of breast cancers are caught in their earliest stage. In the U.S. it's 50%. In Kenya, a woman with the disease may have no hope at all unless she can travel elsewhere for treatment. "You just sit and wait for your death," Mary Onyango, a Kenyan breast-cancer patient, told Time. Her story and those of many others...