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...high-risk, questionable venture is a staple of biblical narratives - Noah building the ark, the Israelites heading out into the wilderness without any provisions, the idea that a couple of loaves and fish could feed a crowd. So maybe Rick Warren was reading Scripture instead of the business pages when he decided to expand his ministry this year by launching a glossy new magazine with a $10 cover price...
...looking for College Fellows to teach sophomore and junior tutorials. Economics Department Chair James H. Stock said that there was “no question that [the program] would help” fill teaching demands, especially for tutorials, as the department depends heavily on visiting faculty. —Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. Spitzer contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Noah M. Silver ’10, a former Crimson associate editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House and served as a student representative on the House Program Planning Committee in 2008. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Svalbard is the ultimate backup - or as Fowler calls it, the "Noah's ark of seeds." The vault was built on the far northern Norwegian island of Longyearbyen, where the Arctic cold helps keeps the seeds viable, in case the electricity that powers the vault's cold storage should ever go. (Seeds can remain dormant but alive for centuries if they're kept cool and dry.) The location isn't an accident - should something truly horrific happen, from extreme climate change to nuclear war, remote Svalbard should remain protected, capable of rebooting global agriculture. "This is an insurance policy...