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Campus crime statistics released for 2004 show that Harvard has the highest burglary rate amongst Ivy League and a number of other top universities. Harvard is reported to have had 446 on-campus burglaries last year, while its nearest Ivy rival was Yale with 82. The lowest rate was Columbia, which reported just 16 burglaries. According to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Spokesman Steven G. Catalano, Harvard’s burglary rate is inflated compared to other colleges’ because of the way the HUPD categorizes crime. Universities are obligated to report annual campus crime under the 1990 Clery...
Residents expressed their opposition, stating that the location was two blocks away from the nearest bus line, and the site was formally rejected by the Charlesview board this spring...
...loathing student of the fifth grade. Even when bribed to read with a late bedtime, cookies and milk—for him, the equivalent of a postponed death sentence and a last supper at Ruth’s Chris—he abstains, staring all too wistfully at the nearest blank television screen. So in searching for a way to challenge his plastic mind without turning him and it off, this summer I found a surprising solution: The Cartoon Network show “Family Guy.” The show is seldom considered educational and appropriate for children...
...After a while the demonstrators lose their fire and retreat, spent, to the side of the road. We drive west toward Pakistan and the earthquake epicenter. We pass through Uri, the nearest thing to a big town in this Indian Kashmir valley, where devastated houses barely stand at odd angles, missing walls from which crumbling rock and debris poured down. An entire row of shops has lost its front, as though sliced off by a blunt cheese wire, and bars of Lux soap, pastries and plastic toys spill out onto the street. We pass broken villages and military camps, including...
...says when the rotors catch the sun at particular angles, a flickering light permeates his house. Indeed, it isn't easy to sell a house that sits near a turbine. Julie and Bart Thiry of Kewaunee County, Wis., who live in a ranch house 800 ft. away from the nearest of five turbines, believe that the windmills are somehow responsible for the persistent headaches of their 8- and 9-year-old daughters. Bart, a school bus driver and janitor, says when he tried to sell the house, he couldn't get an offer...