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...communities, it is much more valuable to take local products to the outside world, because it has the potential of becoming economically self-sustainable.”After talking to the Chinese Exploration and Research Society, a non-governmental organization that has invested in yak cheese production facilities in northwestern China for the past two years, Chyau and So decided to launch the two pilot yak social enterprises—“Yashmere” and “Cheese for Change.” Chyau and So believe that both projects will provide local farmers with a viable...
Four of Harvard’s most successful wrestlers last season competed in the University Nationals hosted by Northwestern University last weekend, driven by the zeal to improve their skills on the mat even in the off-season. Looking to use this opportunity as a springboard going into next season, junior tri-captains Bode Ogunwole and Max Meltzer, junior Robbie Preston, and sophomore Bobby Latessa all competed in the tournament, which served as the qualifying event for the World University Championships, where wrestlers face some of the world’s best competition. Finalists in the tournament also qualified...
...like the millenarian cults that helped usher out China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing. Hence the continuing crackdown against the meditation movement Falun Gong or the raid last month on an unofficial Bible study in central Henan province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement by the Uighur ethnic group, Muslim activity outside of state mosques is suppressed and offenders sometimes jailed. Nor do Tibetans have free rein to worship the Dalai Lama, who was not invited to the World Buddhist Forum in Hangzhou...
...which recruiting is as highly publicized nationally as any other? Some 250-pound 17-year-old who has just recently received his acceptance letter could become the cornerstone of a dominant Ivy championship squad in 2009. Why, just three years ago, junior Clifton Dawson was a redshirt freshman at Northwestern University; now, he is the most prolific running back ever to have worn Crimson.In the not-too-distant past, the stars of the swimming, lacrosse, basketball, fencing, hockey teams were relative unknowns to their Harvard classmates.Now, the likes of David Cromwell, Evan Calvert, Matt Stehle, Emily Cross, and Peter Hafner...
Built To Spill “You in Reverse” (Warner Bros.) By JENNIFER Y. KAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Five years after their last and disappointingly lackluster album, “Ancient Melodies of the Future,” Northwestern guitar rockers Built to Spill have approached a comeback with “You In Reverse,” their latest release. Formed in 1992 by prodigious guitarist and singer Doug Martsch, Built to Spill’s deeply melodic, spiraling rock compositions were so well-received as to make the band one of the most popular indie rock acts...