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...choking. "Sometimes it is so bad the planes can't take off," says Wang Ren, a taxi driver in Chongqing, the first major city on the Yangtze's course. After barely an hour driving through the city, eyes begin to sting and throats get sore from the brown haze that hangs in the air. Wang says he cannot find another job; layoffs from state-owned industries have been heavy in Chongqing, and several times this year the unemployed have blocked traffic in the city center. "But," says Wang, using a time-honored phrase, "Chinese people know how to eat bitterness...
...kept. Yet when it came to the one category in which Harvard as an institution is judged alone--namely, the administration's responsiveness to student concerns and its attentiveness to student input--I found myself giving the University very low marks. My fear is that in the pre-Commencement haze of celebrations with friends, conversations with faculty mentors and well-deserved self congratulation for four years of Harvard work, we might too generously evaluate those aspects of the undergraduate experience that are most disagreeable...
From relentless rains to devastating droughts, the effects of the climate upheaval known as El Nino are still being felt. Last week, for example, out-of-control forest fires in rain-starved Mexico continued to send clouds of smoke into the U.S., spreading haze from Houston to Denver. But if El Nino's immediate impact on people has been hard to miss, there are equally important, if less obvious consequences for wildlife. In the oceans as well as on land, many animals are struggling to find enough to eat, while others--including disease-bearing rodents and insects--are unexpectedly flourishing...
Although the alarm's cause remains unknown, fogmachines did create a suspiciously thick haze inthe indoor dance floor during the fete. With sucha spooky mood in the dining hall, who knew whatwas going...
...never know who's lurking in the haze,"said Perry Wilson '01 of the smoke...