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...This year I wrote my senior thesis on those cages. What struck me most forcefully was how the horrific has become normal. Last week, a pig factory farm in Shuyer County, Illinois, burnt down. The owners had economized by neither installing a sprinkler system nor a night watchman who could release the pigs. In the ensuing blaze, 11,000 pigs were burnt alive, many struggling frantically to escape their cages—firefighters recalled the horrific squeals they heard. Yet nothing changed. The owners promptly claimed insurance and will soon rebuild their factory farm...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Animal Atrocities | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Have you recently taken an ax to your ten-year-old ceramic piggy, only to find the bank’s empty? Maybe you spent a little too much on new spring clothes…or more realistically, on late-night coffee runs to Starbucks/JP Licks/7-11/Dunkin Donuts? Fail to get that summer internship at...wait, which banks are left? Was the only summer internship you got unpaid...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: FlyBy's Job Search | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Elise X. Liu ’11, a Social Studies concentrator from Cabot House, was awarded the 111th Annual Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize last night at the Harvard Faculty Club. The Wendell Prize, established in 1899, is awarded each year to a Harvard sophomore who exhibits extraordinary academic achievement and contributes to the Harvard community. About 40 guests, comprised of faculty members including Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67, and several former Wendell Prize winners, attended the reception. The award requires an extensive application process. Students who obtain a GPA of at least 3.67 in their...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sophomore Wins the Wendell Prize | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...here. Here we have open air, sea breezes, there can be nothing like that here. Do not believe anything you hear, just enjoy your party. Listen I can stay and if you do not like the wedding I can take you guys to new places or all-night nightclubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu: Mexico's Lost Weekend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...took the state of Guerrero till Sunday to shut down night clubs and gathering places in the golden tourist triangle that includes Acapulco, Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo. Indeed, on Saturday, Acapulco had seemed totally normal: everything was open. Even at lunchtime on Sunday, in old Acapulco which is not a tourist haunt and a place for locals to gather, few people wore masks. The stalls that serve seafood cocktails and fried fish were full. I asked a couple who were having fried fish if they had heard of the influenza. Mariana, 29, a secretary for the State government, said, "Sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu: Mexico's Lost Weekend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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