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Fisher is one of more than 1,000 "locavores," self-styled concerned culinary adventurers, who took the pledge last month to eat nothing--or almost nothing--but sustenance drawn from within 100 miles of their home. The movement began last year when four San Francisco-- area foodies designated August 2005 as the first Eat Local Challenge and launched a website, Locavores.com They were inspired by the book Coming Home to Eat, ecologist Gary Paul Nabham's account of his yearlong effort to restrict himself to native foods near his Arizona home. Soon some 60 bloggers had joined the 100-mile...
Summers also elaborated on the University’s commitment to genomics research. “Draw a circle with a five-mile radius from this point and you encompass the greatest concentration of biomedical talent in the world,” he said...
...almost exactly a mile from Harvard Square in Cambridge, the center of our University’s past, to Barry’s Corner in Allston, the heart of its future. But the contrast between the two couldn’t be greater...
...through Eliot House and the University’s biology labs nearly one year after his death. Paul F. Gilligan III ’05 died last June when he fell out the window of an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Participants in the 4.2-mile race were invited to make contributions to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, which awards a $2,500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Gilligan’s alma mater, Haddon Township High School in New Jersey. The foundation will also annually award a fellowship in his honor...
Standing in the middle of Harvard Yard, it is easy to imagine that within a two-mile radius, there are historic homes, multimillionaires, labs with scientists researching cures for cancer, and technology companies working to make our world faster. From the perspective of that history and entrepreneurial spirit, the possibilities for a positive life seem endless...