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...panic is declining sales in industries associated with the outbreak. For instance, U.S. hog markets have been hurt recently as consumers scared about the flu are avoiding pig products. This behavior is irrational: Unlike mad cow disease, which involves prions that can stick around after death, viruses need their host to be alive and cannot survive cooking, so there’s no danger in eating cooked meat of a pig that was sick before it died. The Feds have tried to explain this to Americans and have even started calling the virus “H1N1” (after...
Additionally, given that the city of Cambridge has plenty of other recreation options for students in the summer, the MAC seems like an appropriate place to cut. Cambridge has a host of public athletic facilities open for use around Harvard, boasting 84 public parks and playgrounds. These include basketball courts outside of Mather House, tennis courts outside of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, and softball fields in the Cambridge Common. With a little curiosity and investigation, students can find and take advantage of these opportunities...
...hosts. TCM viewers are a demanding lot, and raising Robert Osborne's name at a dinner party with the right people can stoke spirited debate. The 76-year-old host has acknowledged he occasionally mangles an unfamiliar name or movie title (the Japanese director Kon Ichikawa came out "Ron Ichikawa," the French film La Terre was La Ter-ray); he once said that Stephen Sondheim emails him when he catches an Osborne gaffe. But his avuncular or grandpaternal demeanor puts the home audience at ease even as it charms the celebrities he chats with. Weekend afternoons go to Ben Mankiewicz...
...talk movies, even with other people. He invites guest programmers in for an evening; people like director John Landis and author James Ellroy choose four pictures and explain why they did. A fuller version of these conversations are slated each Saturday, when Osborne and a year-long guest co-host movies from the collection in a series called The Essentials. So far his partners have been film historian and glamour gal Molly Haskell, writer-actress Carrie Fisher, actress Rose McGowen and multimedia bad-boy/cool-guy Alec Baldwin. The taping must be an ordeal for the guests - Molly told me that...
...Wheaton, assistant director of athletics, Gary J. Brown, manager of recreational sports at the Quadrangle Recreational and Athletic Center, and Claire Goggin, intramurals and clubs sports assistant, were the first on board with the club’s idea to host an exhibition...