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According to the press release, the agency’s grading system is based on the number of days that the Charles River has met Massachusetts boating and swimming standards, which is determined by bacterial levels...

Author: By Spencer H. Hardwick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Charles River Gets B+ for Water Quality | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...event yesterday afternoon included student and staff panelists who emphasized the size of Harvard’s queer community and the school’s “queer-friendly” environment. “There are more homosexual people in here than I’ve ever met in my entire life,” said Ethan R. Pierce, a pre-frosh from a small town in Maine who added that he only knows two gay people at his high school of 800 students. But panelists also made a point to discuss queer students who remain uninvolved with...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pre-frosh Attend Talks on Sex | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...virus, with genes from human and avian flus as well as the swine variety. And since it is apparently causing large-scale outbreaks in Mexico, along with separate confirmed cases in the U.S. and Canada and suspected cases in other countries, it would seem that we've already met the criteria for phase 4. But though an emergency committee met on April 25 to evaluate the situation, the WHO hasn't made the pandemic declaration yet. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim assistant director-general for health, security and environment, said on Sunday that its experts "would like a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu: 5 Things You Need to Know About the Outbreak | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...with Tearing Apart the Land, an introduction to a scandalously underreported conflict. Most of the 1.8 million people in Thailand's three southernmost provinces are Malay-speaking Muslims, but they make up only 2% of a largely Thai-speaking Buddhist country. For a century, attempts at assimilation have been met with resentment and rebellion. The current hostilities erupted under former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose hard-line response to what he dismissed as banditry turned sporadic militant attacks into a full-blown insurgency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Forgotten Conflict | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

This strategy earned the yarnmaker a loyal customer in the protective-glove industry. Although that company's existing product line met cut-protection specs, low abrasion properties contributed to a short life span. Patrick Yarns developed a fiber that could double the cut protection and increase the abrasion resistance more than 300%. A minimal increase in production cost resulted in a longer-lasting, more malleable product that saved money over time. Patrick also creates earth-friendly products and operates the EarthSpan recycling program, which uses fibers from finished apparel or fabric and incorporates customers' unwanted textiles and scraps into engineered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinning a New Strategy | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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