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...summer afternoon in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, hundreds of young Muslim students sleep in the shadow of a mosque's arches, enduring the hard stone floor and swarming clouds of flies. Suddenly the call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need...
Geonetta is in what Albertson calls "the dream phase." According to Albertson, a former sound engineer who worked his way up to co-CEO from Guitar Center's sales floor, "becoming a musician is all about dreaming. The longer we can extend the dream phase, the better." In the past several years, the dream phase got a boost from advances in digital recording technology. Artists like Geonetta who don't have a record-label contract used to have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for studio time plus distribution costs. But now amateurs can produce CDs with their home...
...Libraries (HCL) will relocate most Hilles library employees and empty the library of its collections—most of which are duplicates of those contained elsewhere in the and HCL resources system. A recent donation to Lamont will support the creation of a new reading room on the fifth floor of the undergraduate library. In turn, most of what is now the main reading room will house the Morse Music Library and media center, both currently located in Hilles...
Later construction may make way for a relocation of most of the Government Documents section, currently in the bottom floor of Lamont, to Littauer Library, according to Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline. The move may make room for late night study space, she said...
...study by two Harvard researchers quietly published last January in a small research journal has set off a political storm that has led to debate on the senate floor and internal wrangling at the Environmental Protection Agency...