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...last week, rising temperatures had turned the snow to rain, melting what had already fallen and drowning the entire region in a soup of water and mud. Officials ordered the helicopter evacuation of 2,200 visitors trapped in Yosemite National Park by the rising Merced River. Police in Northern California told some 95,000 people in Yuba City and Marysville to leave their homes as the Feather River overflowed its banks. A sinkhole in Seattle swallowed part of a gas station, while about 90 mud slides struck the area, burying roads, threatening homes and sweeping away the wooden supports...
Perhaps more than any other sector, Harvard’s media scene has fallen victim to this lure of independence—and the new year’s crop of upstart publications is proof that students would rather create redundant projects than adjust to an existing niche...
...won’t comment on his intellectual level. You can form your own opinion on that. I think that like President Summers he very much wants to do a good job as president, but has fallen under the influence of some people whose judgment he respects and whose judgment in a string of occasions has not proven to be very wise...
Over the past four years, the wages of Harvard janitors and other low paid employees have fallen further and further short of that “minimally decent standard,” as the cost of living in Boston has shot up and the university’s endowment has exploded...
...disputes the fact that fluoride, a natural element found in rocks and groundwater, protects tooth enamel. Since 1945, municipal systems serving 170 million Americans have added fluoride (mostly in the form of hydrofluorosilicic acid) to their water, and the prevalence of cavities in the U.S. has fallen dramatically. "A community can save about $38 in dental-treatment costs for every $1 invested in fluoridation," says William Maas, the CDC's director of oral health. "How many other investments yield that kind of return...