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...adding that it would be inappropriate to remark on specific personnel issues. Undergraduates learned about the anti-gay remarks from an e-mail sent to the Adams House open list on Tuesday by openly gay Adams House cook William D. Nicolson. Nicolson sought to collect gay pride items and pass them out to students to wear in the dining halls. “There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being proud of who you are,” Nicolson said. Yesterday, Nicolson affixed a black pin with the word “pride” and a rainbow...
...Health, which serves as the most significant source of the University’s federal research funding by far. The legislation would also give an additional $3 billion to the National Science Foundation, another key financial backer. The increases are part of a broader $819 billion economic stimulus package passed by the House. The Senate is set to consider a similar version of that legislation next week. Harvard chief lobbyist Kevin Casey said it is likely that the bill will pass “in the near future.” Democrats are hoping to ready a final version...
...Shanghai. There, on March 6, the company plans to open a 38,000-sq.-ft. (3,500 sq m) House of Barbie - the first of its kind in the world. This is nothing like the Main Street toy shop of yesterday. To enter the eight-story showpiece space, customers pass through a pink neon-lit tube, where the prerecorded sound of giggling girls grows progressively - some might say demonically - louder. After registering for a Barbie passport, visitors can get their hair and nails done at a spa and shop for makeup, accessories and even couture. Vera Wang is on board...
...Kianshahr's Badr Center in Shahre-Rey, a sprawling, mostly working-class suburb of Tehran, whose population is 30% Afghan. Iran Mokhtari, now 57, was one of the first recruits. Although she had only a primary-school education, she was taught the information that she needed to pass on in her community. Stopping at a home on her street, she rings a neighbor's doorbell. "Open up. I'm your health volunteer," she says, and instantly, the door is buzzed open. Inside, she tells 26-year-old Azizeh Mohammadi that she should come to the health center the next...
...state access to family-planning services under Medicaid was seized on late last week by House Republicans as one of their chief reasons for opposing the stimulus bill. Democrats, they charged, wanted to use taxpayer money that was supposed to create jobs to instead "fund the abortion industry" and pass out contraceptives. The Republicans were caught off guard when Obama called their bluff and asked congressional Democrats to remove the provision - and fell back to complaining about the bill's cost and the insufficient size of tax cuts. But then it was liberals' turn to be up in arms over...