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...tall (2.4 m) fence topped with barbed wire now surrounds the town to keep people out, lest they be harmed by still frequent landslides. Former residents gather on the hills overlooking their destroyed homes, lighting incense and firecrackers for their kin entombed in the collapsed buildings and mud below...
...many students who have come to the MAC Quad on a Saturday night, they don’t have regrets either, regardless of the rain. A few minutes after 7 p.m., the audience has settled down, and the lights have been turned off. With everyone sitting, the mud ceases to become an issue, and even the weather seems to calm just in time. The work that the directors, designers, and models have put in is about to pay off. Suddenly the music starts up, and the room erupts with applause and cheers. The first model struts down the runway...
...have fun.” The Crimson women accomplished this goal and more, turning the difficult conditions into an advantage. “Conditions did make times slower and made it more difficult,” Richardson explained. “But we were just stomping around in the mud having a great time. That’s what cross country is all about, and we actually enjoyed [the challenge].” Harvard’s male competitors did not express as much enthusiasm for the sloppy course, but achieved equal success in the 10K race. Sophomore Dan Chenoweth...
While the school collapses have been in the news in the last week, the country is still drowning in the aftermath of the storms. Gonaives, the country's third largest town, was the hardest hit and is still buried under 3 million metric tons of mud. Medecins San Frontiers (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) has set up mobile clinics, distributed water and constructed a temporary hospital in Gonaives, since the government hospital was completely destroyed during Hurricane Hannah in late August. In hard-to-reach areas, however, malnutrition is growing and the food supply shrinks. Daily food insecurity affects...
...jarring to see where a drug like heparin begins. Liu Jing, a cheerful 36-year-old, is stomping around in pig poop and mud in knee-high boots. He is a farmer in Jiangsu province, north of Shanghai, where providing the raw ingredients for heparin is a big business. Liu's farm produces a key source of heparin: pig intestines. (Heparin is derived from the mucous membranes in the intestines.) Nearly half the world's pigs are in China, so companies like SPL have set up shop. In SPL's case, it first began buying raw heparin in 1996, established...