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...some arrivals have been devastating. Gypsy moths, brought to Massachusetts in 1869 by a would-be silk farmer, managed to escape and strip the leaves from millions of acres of forest. Descendants of some 100 starlings unleashed in New York City in 1890 now number 200 million, crowding out native birds from coast to coast. The Japanese vine kudzu was transplanted to the U.S. to prevent erosion; it has since run roughshod over 10 million acres (4 million hectares) in the Southeast. Beginning with the Plant Quarantine Act of 1912, the U.S. has implemented a series of laws to strengthen...
...mare near the Caspian Sea in 1125 B.C. In A.D. 1402, he says, he was reincarnated as a peddler in Samarkand and, half a millennium later, after stints as a firewood collector and an "innkeeper in an unknown land," he says he was born the eldest son of a farmer in Gunsan, present day South Korea, in 1933. Walking home from school one day in that "obscure corner of the world" - then like the rest of the country under Japanese colonial occupation, but now a drab port with an American Air Force base nearby - the shy and sickly teenager stumbled...
...will stand with the Haitian population,” Farmer said in a recorded video statement shot from Haiti...
...Farmer, who has helped to coordinate international medical relief efforts as the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, thanked the Harvard community for its efforts and called Haiti “our oldest neighbor...
...event—which was organized by students and supported by the Office for the Arts at Harvard—will donate all proceeds from the concert to Partners in Health. Partners, co-founded in 1987 by then-Harvard Medical School student and now-Harvard professor Paul Farmer, has been operating community health clinics in Haiti for over two decades...