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...Jamestown's 400th birthday, and Queen Elizabeth II, James I's great-great-great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-granddaughter, will be present to celebrate the occasion. But it's worth remembering that Jamestown was a giant gamble. The trials were severe, the errors numerous, the losses colossal, the gains, eventually, great. Life in Jamestown was a three-way tug-of-war between daily survival, the settlers' own preconceptions and the need to adapt to a new world. Jamestown did not invent America, but in its will to survive, its quest for democracy, its exploitation of both Indians...
...anyone's venture is special to him. And the England of James I and his predecessor, Elizabeth I, suffered from overpopulation and poverty. Pushing people into other lands could solve both problems and even have a side benefit. As the Rev. Richard Hakluyt, England's premier geographer, put it, "Valiant youths rusting [from] lack of employment" would flourish in America and produce goods and crops that would enrich their homeland. The notion was so prevalent that it inspired a blowhard character in the 1605 play Eastward Ho! to declare that all Virginia colonists had chamber pots of "pure gold...
Toilet paper might not be the first thing one associates with environmental activism, but for Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, the two are inextricably linked. Last summer, Shope discovered that Kimberly-Clark, the company that supplied the majority of Harvard’s toilet paper, was not being environmentally friendly. “I found out that Kimberly-Clark source some of their materials from the boreal forest [in Canada],” Shope said. Shope approached Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) with a proposal to switch all the toilet paper on campus to 100 percent recycled products...
...Fighting to Live After reading that Elizabeth Edwards is living with metastatic breast cancer, I have to warn women that cancer still kills [April 9]. While treatments have improved greatly, without early detection of the first onset or of recurrence, cancer remains deadly. I urge all women to listen to the subtle messages your bodies send. Challenge your doctors, and do not be too afraid or too busy to make an appointment for an examination. Fund-raising commercials and cancer-center advertisements show smiling, apparently healthy patients who seem to have beaten the disease. What Edwards and TV commercials show...
...would've woken up in the morning and said, `Maybe this student who's just troubled is really going to do something this horrific?'" said Elizabeth Hart, a communications major and a spokeswoman for the student government...