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...integral part of what makes Harvard unique—and what has made it into the storied institution it is today—is its habit of taking big risks that yield even bigger results. One area in which Harvard’s innovation and leadership has been particularly visionary has been the fight to increase access to higher education. The fledgling Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) program, of which we are student coordinators, is a continuation of this legacy, and in its brief lifespan it has been wildly successful. But if Harvard is to be open to students...
After reading “The Da Vinci Code,” I discovered that Brown, a former English teacher, is a creature of habit. There are no surprises—just more of the same winning formula. Replace the scientist with a stolid Harvard symbologist, the analyst with a sassy cop, and the executive branch with the Catholic Church. Then include some car chases, narrow escapes, and the requisite sexual tension—and voil?...
...good news is that we have a communications system in place among the agencies, we have better equipment to train responders and we have a greater habit of working together than we did five years ago," says David Snyder, a Falls Church, Va., councilman who serves on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' homeland security task force. "The problem is that the linkages between these different systems and agencies are extremely weak...
...According to his mother, Seth had had a nosebleed the day before that stopped after a few minutes. Though he had never had a nosebleed before, they told me that he was a frequent nose picker, a habit his mother and grandmother assured me they had tried to fix. Seth?s father also told me the little boy had had a fever three days earlier, a temperature of 101.3 that hadn?t been elevated since. Other than that, there seemed to be no worrisome symptoms: he was acting and playing normally, wasn't congested nor did he cough...
Like the U.S., Sweden is addicted to oil. Unlike the U.S., it has a plan to kick the habit--and a deadline. By 2020, says Mona Sahlin, Minister for Sustainable Development, the country will no longer be dependent on fossil fuels. "By then," she declares, "no home will need oil for heating, no motorist will be obliged to use petrol [gasoline] as the sole option available...