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...father on that October afternoon, know that in a few years she will be captain of a team that has been to the NCAA Championships 10 times, scraping the top of that very river, fighting her way down the sinuous Head of the Charles race course.Co-captain Laura Larsen-Strecker grew up not far from this Cambridge scene, in adjacent Brookline. She began rowing in her freshman year of high school, after her father took her to watch the Head of the Charles Regatta, and she went out on those sacred waters a few months later. Larsen-Strecker rowed throughout...
...graduated four seniors from the top two eights last year. As a result, the Black and White will be asking much from its younger classes, its sophomores and juniors in particular.“We graduated a handful of seniors last year,” senior co-captain Laura Larsen-Strecker says. “So we are definitely a young team.”But this is not a setback. On the contrary, it is an exciting transformation for the crew. Everyone has a chance to race at the top. And as a result, the speed of the Black...
...ambitious plans for Allston and we just completed buildings in North Yard. We have a lot of expenses facing us and I am not sure where the money [for eliminating tuition for all students] would come from.”PATH TO FREEDOM?With the implementation of HFAI, Larsen Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government Christopher N. Avery ’88 says that in a sense the College is moving toward a tuition-free model for the lowest income students. Whether the model should be extended to all students rests on a larger philosophical question...
...still too thick in most places to access reserves that may or may not exist, and the technology to drill in these inhospitable conditions is not there yet. "If anybody has reached anything, we haven't heard about it," says Mr. Steen Ryd Larsen, who heads the department in charge of Greenland in the Danish Prime Minister's office. "And if somebody reaches the resources, it would be another decade before it generates income. It's not just around the corner...
Psychologists now have a name for Larsen's condition: eco-anxiety, the overwhelming and sometimes debilitating concern for the worsening state of the environment. As signs of global warming accumulate, therapists say they're seeing more and more patients with eco-anxious symptoms. Sufferers feel depression, hopelessness and insomnia, and go through sudden, uncontrollable bouts of sobbing. They're overwrought about where the polar bears will live if they lose their habitat. They fret about the Earth running out of fossil fuels and about the slow disappearance of the oceans' coral reefs. Sometimes, the worry is closer to home, about...