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...This daily morning meditation, hosted by the graduate student sector of the Harvard Buddhist Community (HBC) and regularly offered since the mid-1980s, is part of a growing interest in Buddhism on campus and nationally. According to data collected in the American Religious Identification Survey, a study run by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the percentage of Americans who identified themselves as Buddhist doubled from 1990 to 2001 (0.23 percent to 0.53 percent). While a portion of these numbers comes from the immigrant Asian population, “there has also been a turn toward...
...fact a finite number of jokes to be made about the word shuttlecock. But after the puerile humor is exhausted, it is the high-speed birdies themselves that attract attention to the sport of badminton. That is, perhaps, why the stands are often empty at Harvard Badminton Club (HBC) competitions...
Right now, the HBC is preparing for the Boston Open, which takes place at the end of February. More than anything, the club needs fans, as its matches are often horribly under-attended. Not only can spectators enjoy high-quality badminton, the diehard fan can invest in an HBC t-shirt—emblazoned, inevitably, with the adage “Balls of Feathers, Shuttlecocks of Steel...
...chart the hazards, environmental consultants Halff Associates and HBC Engineering/Terracon pored over Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from the late 1800s and old city directories to locate chemical warehouses, junkyards and gas stations. Engineers walked the property with equipment that detected heavy-metal deposits, then bored some 600 holes and collected more than 5,000 soil and water samples. A color-coded map showed the worst problems: pink for lead and arsenic, green for petroleum and purple for benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic by-product of garbage incineration...