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...years ago Bent formed SunNight Solar to manufacture and distribute inexpensive solar-powered flashlights. His BOGO (for "Buy One, Give One"; buy one in the U.S., and SunNight sends one to Africa) lights were a perfect fit for sun-rich Africa, providing five hours of illumination - with energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) - after a 10-hour charge. Bent designed the flashlights himself - even making one model in pink, to discourage men from seizing the products from women. (They wouldn't want to be seen with the feminine-looking lights.) But he ran into a problem: unlike kerosene lamps, which...
...questions.” Following many interviews and surveys of graduating Harvard seniors, Light concluded that while most students were pleased with their college experience, one thing that they felt they lacked was an outlet for general reflection; more specifically, a venue to examine how their morals and ideals fit into their lives at Harvard. Light has now taken his findings and—along with Dean of Freshman Thomas Dingman ’67—spearheaded the introduction of freshman discussion panels. In these small groups, first-year students can talk in an intimate setting about issues that...
...opera calls for numerous palace attendants, guards, peasants, and a chorus. While the peasants have simplistic white linens and iconic peasant hats, the ministers wear elegant and noble bluish-purple robes with lengthy sleeves, emphasizing their roles as identical and interchangeable within song. Calaf is dressed in a short-fitting gold and brown outfit, its length intended to contrast with the extravagance and nobility of the woman he pursues. In addition, some of the most indulgent designs are reserved for the nine children in the chorus, who are intended to look like “little china dolls...
...multiplicity. Artworks focus on topics from abortion to bell peppers. Any piece that was submitted in a timely fashion was included in the show, resulting in a range of both quality and topic. “All the pieces are so personal that if the person felt that it fit with the theme, then that qualified it,” Samayoa says of the decision.Indeed, many artists took a very personal approach to the relationship between Harvard and body issues, though this is not an alienating force. For Courtney L. Blair ’10, who attended the opening...
...October, Joseph Taylor, a Princeton physicist and Nobel Laureate, lectured before a large Iranian university audience and was lavished with media attention fit for a celebrity. Five Iranian scientists who specialize in food-borne diseases spent three weeks this past November touring U.S. institutions, coast to coast...