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Noah may have built an arc, but one Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator is going about flood preparation in a different way—she has designed a line of water-friendly garb. Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 opened a store in Inman Square earlier this month to sell 14 different styles of clothes and accessories for her VES senior thesis. The clothing store, which she has dubbed the Climate Change Preparedness Center, sells items designed for “a swampy more aquatic-oriented future,” according to Van Cleef. The store?...
...hurricane season about to begin, more than half the city's 460,000 residents have not returned. Those who have are frustrated by the uncertainty - both in their personal lives and the life of the city. There is a litany of daily annoyances, from crumbling streets to piles of flood-damaged cars that have yet to be hauled away, not to mention miles of abandoned housing. Sylvia Barabino, who lived in heavily flooded New Orleans East, drove in from Baton Rouge where she has been living since Katrina to vote. Her home is uninhabitable and the elementary school where...
...water used on the property comes from the waterfall, which snakes over shining rocks like a silver ribbon. Before a flood of gold miners, loggers and sugarcane farmers pushed them from their traditional lands, women from the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal tribe visited the large pool at the base of the fall to make quartz knives and pounding stones. These days Keely Naden visits the same spot her ancestors knew so well, but now she takes lodge guests with her, and her daily walk is a highlight of a stay here. The bush amble includes spotting Boyd's forest dragon lizards...
...band appears as—surprise!—themselves. Unfortunately, all these changing costumes only remind us that the Chili Peppers have been stuck in the same musical-historical rut for the past 10 years. “Dani California” sounds like any of the flood of MTV-friendly, moderately funky, poppy singles that have come off of the band’s last three albums. And it’s too bad that the song’s so lousy, because the video’s concept and execution are solid. The Chili Peppers...
...primary will be held this Saturday. Some at the meeting came from New Orleans families. They talked about the possibility of contacting former Gulf residents who had relocated to Cambridge. Sara C. Ehrhardt, a first-year at the Kennedy School of Government, had dedicated her spring break to researching flood mitigation and creating a plan for advocacy. Some 20 other Harvard graduate students had also worked in the community with her, and she and two others—one considering a doctorate, the other studying at the Law School—had come to the meeting as well to share...