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...houses collections for the Weatherhead Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Documentation Center for Contemporary Japan, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies—has restricted circulation of its collection materials to in-house use only, as of July 14. The library will no longer be a delivery point for Harvard Depository materials owned by other libraries as of July 7, and materials from other libraries cannot be called to Fung either. Furthermore, Fung will no longer provide course reserve materials beginning in the fall. Those materials will now be provided at Lamont Library instead...
Purnomo is referring to a 2003 car bomb at the hotel that killed 12 people. Since then, the security at the hotel has been enhanced: for example, vehicles are no longer allowed to pull up at the lobby. Instead, guests and visitors are dropped off near the street, go through metal detectors, then walk to the lobby. Same with pickups - people have to walk out to the street. At the Ritz-Carlton, which is connected to the Marriott by an underground tunnel, vehicles are still allowed to pull up to the lobby, but security at the front gate will open...
...What fad would you give her credit for starting? What do you see selling because of her endorsement? I'm minding my own business in line at the bank and I'll see a woman in front of me wearing a skirt that's a little longer-length ... kind of falling below the knee, and a cardigan that she belts over. I think, Oh, the Michelle effect. There you go. It's right there. Boy, I bet cardigan sales have gone through the roof. I think sleeveless sheaths - we're seeing many, many more of them. I think...
Still confused? The site has a team of "Internet scientists" whose instructional videos break down some of the more popular memes, like Keyboard Cat and Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Never mind the fact that the videos often run longer than the original memes (Keyboard Cat does his thing in 54 seconds, while it takes the scientists more than four minutes to break it down...
...curse word of their choice continuously while their hands were in the water; another group was asked to repeat a non-expletive control word, such as that which might be used to describe a table. The result was that swearing not only allowed students to withstand the discomfort longer, but also reduced their perception of pain intensity. Curse words, the study found, help you cope...