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...certainly has an appeal to it, but it can get very tedious when you’re going from host family to host family to hotels to long bus rides, and all the stuff in between,” he says. “I think it’s one of those things where if you’re making progress, it stays fun. If you start to stagnate, it can get very stale in a hurry...
...nude event. Traditional art lauds the naked body as the height of beauty and purity. Our forbearers caught on too—a naked disco, Starkers!, is held monthly in London; many indigenous Brazilian tribes wear next to no clothes on a daily basis; Germany plays host to various naked cycling competitions throughout the year; and some South Asian ancient traditions conflate nudity with holiness. Being naked is better for us physically, belongs to us historically, and is embraced by some of us culturally. So why can’t my family be naked...
...mail. But overcrowded students don’t need to worry about accommodating these new roommates around the clock. “Once the lights go off they kind of disappear,” says Melissa M. Garcia ’09, who is currently playing host to a swarm of ladybugs. This now-you-see-them-now-you-don’t behavior isn’t necessarily a good thing, as it leaves little room for meaningful attachments. “They don’t stay in my room long enough to be named...
...Nickerson Trophy, the New England championship for freshmen, saw 15 teams in 20 races over two divisions. Harvard locked down fourth place with a point total of 87, behind host Boston College. The finish came after a wind delay that brought the tide into play on Saturday...
...Neanderthal man may now have a new nickname: “Ginger.” Some Neanderthals had red hair and pale skin, according to recent research conducted by Holger Römpler, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Evolutionary and Organismic Biology, and a host of international colleagues. Römpler and his collaborators extracted DNA from the bones of two Neanderthals, a 43,000-year-old Neanderthal from El Sidrón, Spain, and a 50,000-year-old from Monti Lessini, Italy. Looking at the cells of the Neanderthal bones, the researchers discovered a specific...