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...careful that you’re not swatting at gnats while you’re being trampled by elephants,” he says. “There are some things that would be nice to change, but we don’t really have strong evidence that they matter.” But Spring Greeney ’09, former chair of the Environmental Action Committee, may have identified the real elephant in the room. “The fact that students were the one who discovered this shows some failure in the system,” she says...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don’t Drink the Water! | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...praises of Coach Amaker must be tempered by the facts of his coaching career—a .559 winning percentage, one trip to the NCAAs in ten years, and a firing at Michigan that still looms large over this and the Wolverine program.But these critiques don’t matter here at Harvard. At a Big Ten or ACC school, it’s the NCAAs or bust. And at a school like Duke or Michigan, with NCAA Championship banners hanging from its rafters, the pressures are even greater.At Harvard, these faults don’t matter because our rafters...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: Harvard and the Amaker Effect | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

Cooney claims that his group represents the public majority, citing a survey which says that 85% of Pennsylvanians are anti-foie gras. "It's not just a matter of preference on a menu like chocolate or vanilla. It's a matter of protecting animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for Your Right to Pâté | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...relationship may not send all of us into depression or to the ER - statistically speaking, most of us weather the stresses of life just fine - but for now it's impossible for doctors to predict who will be susceptible and who won't. So, whether it's a matter of quality of life, or life and death, it's probably good advice for the stressed-out folk among us to take a breather now and again. "With chronic stress, we may not feel it in our cardiovascular systems, but we do feel drained," says Brotman. "It's hard to imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Stress Harms the Heart | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...first contest was already over: an epic, exciting, down-to-the-wire finale in a men's competition that lasted just over two hours and came to a rousing photo finish when Patrick Ivuti (2:11:11) edged out runner up Jaouad Gharib by a matter of hundredths of a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Marathon Goes Wrong | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

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