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...airplanes do not like it one bit. Some of these are claustrophobic while others object to the fact that they are not allowed to smoke at 37,000 feet anymore. But, the majority of nervous flyers have anxiety based on their belief that nothing that weighs any number of tons should be able to operate off of the ground at all. To their way of thinking, flying is a physical impossibility which they tolerate because driving from New York to Los Angeles takes five or six days...
...HUNAP programs, gathering data on the programs and soliciting input from students, faculty, staff, and alumni. She said that she would also like to encourage students to remain involved with the Native American community after graduation. “I would like to see a sharp increase in the number of Native graduates coming out of the Ivy institutions and going into leadership positions directly related to tribal needs and concerns,” Lowe said. Lowe also emphasized the importance of HUNAP to both Harvard and the larger Native American community beyond the gates...
...cultural immersion, faculty consultation, and curricular integration. According to Erin E. Goodman, the assistant director of the OIP and one of the grant program’s chief coordinators, 825 students applied for Rockefeller grants, which are available only for proposed projects lasting at least eight weeks. Of that number, 511 have been sent letters informing them of their grant award, with the possibility that some award recipients may receive late notification. “Of the people that are not receiving Rockefeller grants, a significant number received funding from other sources on campus,” Goodman said, noting...
...experts tended to agree that the sluggishness on environmental policy derives from both discord among international powers and differing perspectives on how to handle the body of current environmental knowledge. Regardless of the fact that activists have been “yelling” about environmental issues for a number of years, “the yelling doesn’t get us anywhere,” said panel participant Timothy C. Weiskel, co-director of the Climate Talks Project and instructor in Harvard’s division of continuing education. Panelist William R. Moomaw, director of the Center...
Bachus, Rep. Spencer • number of "socialists" in the House of Representatives...