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...their first open house, Ken and his wife dressed-up for the occasion, in stark contrast to the sloppily dressed students. The couple was very elegant and cultivated, but without snobbery. They were a very powerful civilizing instrument,” Bower recalled...
Data for the social norms campaign comes from a national survey instrument called the National College Health Assessment and is administered by the Center for Health and Wellness Communication at Harvard University Health Services. As we expand this program, students will be invited to review the data and assist in creating and testing messages. The campaign and other related initiatives will have a campus-wide impact, involving a variety of departments, offices, and student groups in order to strengthen connections and relationships on our campus. This is an excellent opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and administrators to work together...
...years old again, a nervous high school student with an overbite, wearing a paper bib around my neck and lying back in a large chair. After gargling with minty liquid, I opened my mouth wide and looked up, and looming above me, holding a gleaming metallic instrument, was Keanu Reeves. That was disconcerting enough, but even odder was the realization that we were not alone but were being watched by hundreds of moviegoers at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah...
...floodwaters rose, EMS technicians told TIME they were left stranded at the downtown Hampton Inn by panicking cops who jumped into their private cars to flee the city. In the wretched Superdome, where several people died before they could get out, a young violinist took out his instrument and played a Bach adagio. "These people have nothing," he told a Los Angeles Times reporter. "I have a violin. And I should play for them...
...ROBERT MOOG, 71, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, credited with ushering in the age of electronica in the 1960s and '70s; in Asheville, North Carolina. As a boy he built gadgets with his engineer father and became intrigued with the theremin, an earlier relative of the synthesizer. His musical instrument first drew attention in 1968 with the release of Switched-On Bach, Walter Carlos' electrified reworking of pieces by the Baroque composer, and was later adopted by artists ranging from the Beatles to Pink Floyd...