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...made equally good use of the opportunities she found in her classes. In the fall term of 2008, she took Engineering Sciences 147: “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences.” Then, in the summer of 2009, she took her final project for the class—a vertical farming system designed to help the urban poor in Africa, called “vertigrow”—to Kenya, and she plans to continue work on it between graduation from Harvard and medical school...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Elizabeth S. Nowak | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Gillespie ’10 from the crowds of flashing sneakers and long legs at a cross-country meet. His distinctive get-up, like a “NBA: Stay in School” baseball cap—discovered in a summer job’s Lost and Found pile—along with his 14:01 minute 5K—3rd best in Harvard history—set him apart from the pack...

Author: By Rachel T. Lipson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Charles F. "Chas" Gillespie | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Long past dreams of Beltway comity, Obama is now in a political tight spot, wedged between sky-high unemployment and lingering concerns over government spending and debt. That choice pits the President's left flank against his moderate supporters. Meanwhile, Republicans have found some traction on the economy, for which Americans traditionally blame, for good or ill, the guy who calls 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home. As soon as Obama finished speaking, his foes pulled out their knives too. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint called Obama "delusional" and "out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recovery Insurance | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...would include some of the harshest anti-gay regulations in the world. If the bill becomes law, the doctor, who asked that his name not be published, could be prosecuted for "aiding and abetting homosexuality." In one version of the bill, his sexually active HIV-positive patients could be found guilty of practicing acts of "aggravated homosexuality," a capital crime, according to the bill. (See the struggle for gay rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired by the U.S. | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

Thanks to a clause in the would-be law that punishes "failure to disclose the offense," anybody who heard the doctor's conversation could be locked up for failing to turn him in to the police. Even a reporter scribbling the doctor's words could be found to have "promoted homosexuality," an act punishable by five to seven years in prison. And were any of the Ugandans in the park to sleep with someone of the same sex in another country, the law would mandate their extradition to Uganda for prosecution. Only terrorists and traitors are currently subject to extraterritorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired by the U.S. | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

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