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This weekend, the Harold Parker State Forest of North Andover, Mass. will be turned into a Darfur refugee camp. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University are jointly hosting an educational exercise to simulate the issues surrounding emergency refugee areas in the war-torn state. Participants in the event will create a service plan for the simulation that addresses sanitation, medical care, and transportation routes, according to a press release. Project Manager Sarah Appleby said participants are required to undergo a “two-week-long intensive, didactic training process?...
...Nesson ’60, who is also the director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “It’s like having the opportunity to engage the real world and choosing to deny yourself even the possibility.” Law professor Richard D. Parker, who restricted laptop usage when he taught first-year students, said he did not see the educational value of allowing Internet use during class but he also did not support the University of Chicago’s prohibition. “One of the arguments is that our students...
...shoes are sold in 46 countries around the world. He has 14 boutiques in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and London, and he plans to open six more next year in places like Singapore, Jakarta and Beijing. He counts Oprah, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz, Katie Holmes and hundreds of other Hollywood stars among his loyal clientele...
...recouped after a network makes a rash cancellation. “Jezebel James” was a traditional three-camera sitcom created and written by Amy Sherman-Palladino, best known as the creator of “Gilmore Girls.” It starred two terrific actresses, indie darling Parker Posey (as neurotic children’s-book editor Sarah) and “Six Feet Under” daughter Lauren Ambrose (as her free-spirited sister Coco). It had an interesting premise: Sarah, who wants a child and can’t get pregnant, enlists Coco...
...July 2007 article in the New Yorker, writer Ian Parker reported a bonobo pack aggressively pursuing a baby duiker--a kind of small antelope. Coxe admits that her Kokolopori researchers reported troubling behavior in one bonobo group after a female gave birth to a stillborn baby. "The other adults let her keep the dead baby for a day," she says. "Then they ate it." These reports have given rise to a prickly cultural debate, with the unknowing bonobos being recruited into America's political wars. bonobos' genteel qualities may be overstated, said a headline in the Wall Street Journal after...