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...temporal trends, either. Even during the summer months, when campus is filled with students who are unfamiliar with Cambridge, the rate does not increase significantly.“The Summer School does a pretty good job of getting the word out,” says Catalano. According to Catalano, likelihood of theft doesn’t even rest on the brand or quality of the bike.“Thieves take the bikes that are easiest to get,” he says.IN FOR THE NIGHTLedlie said that one discernible trend lies in the times of day when bicycles...
...Harvard’s lowest-paid employees and reopened the University’s existing SEIU contract.If that contract expires tonight with no new agreement, all previously negotiated terms between the janitors and the University will still remain in place, Wrinn said.Representatives of SEIU would not comment on the likelihood of a strike, but said the union will meet on Thursday to consider the University’s latest offer.Janitors and student supporters rallied in the Square and at a Harvard Club speech by University President Lawrence H. Summers yesterday in support of their demands. (See story, page 3)KEEPING...
...week after Wyclef Jean did not appear in concert at Harvard, the Undergraduate Council (UC) took steps toward slashing its size by a third and setting up an independent body to coordinate social events. Council leaders, who have hinted at the need for structural change to reduce the likelihood of future ill-planned events, introduced a constitutional amendment at the UC meeting last night. The amendment, if passed by the council two weeks from now, would dissolve the Campus Life Committee (CLC)—one of the UC’s three standing committees?...
...radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip contains a 16-digit personal ID number that can be scanned like a bar code, providing health-care workers access to your medical records online. That could be lifesaving in an emergency, cutting the likelihood of medical errors for accident victims, Alzheimer's patients--anyone who can't communicate or lacks ID. So far, only about 60 Americans have been chipped, mainly Applied Digital employees in Delray Beach, Fla. But the company says 58 hospitals are adopting the technology, a number it expects will expand...
...Jeremy is the prototypical Slacker—Doritos and all. He’s got some funny lines and introduces the novel idea of using a sandwich bag in lieu of a condom, but for the most part, you just want to back away slowly in the likelihood he has scabies.All the best parts of the movie are fully embodied in the form of the lovely Claire Danes. In the role of Mirabelle Buttersfield, the titular Shopgirl, Danes has suddenly fully grown up to the woman we’ve seen her become through such movies...