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...headphones with a microphone built in (sold separately), but it's best to use the VX9800 as a mini boombox. The clarity of the stereo speakers is much better than expected, perhaps a little tinny with not a lot of midrange, but plenty loud, with no distortion, even at peak volume...
...Sean Palfrey, who is clinical professor of pediatrics at Boston University and master of Adams House. “We probably have enough [doses] to vaccinate the people who need it most and we have a supply which should come in time to protect [people] for at least the peak flu season, if not the entire flu season.” But Palfrey said there will not “be enough vaccines for every healthy adult” this year. As in years past, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is collaborating with UHS to work toward limiting the spread...
...landmark climbing expedition in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Now, the group hopes to carve its niche in posterity with some tributes of mountainous proportions. The club, which was the first American group to explore the Central Borkoldoy range of these mountains, is allowed to name all nine peaks they mounted, in accordance with mountaineering tradition. The names they have tentatively assigned range from Peak Harvard to Peak Adventure—with one peak bearing a title that holds sentimental value for one particular member. “The expedition was a manifestation of the growing years...
...people expect to enjoy the culinary peak experience of a lifetime in a vegetarian restaurant, but the light and lovely Terre à Terre in Brighton, England, takes the bean cake. Over three-quarters of the restaurant's clientele are simply flirting with a meat-free lifestyle, drawn by exquisite dishes dreamed up by chefs Amanda Powley and Philip Taylor. Both are practicing vegetarians, but neither wastes a heartbeat worrying about the ingredients they can't use-instead, they focus on producing a rich and varied spread using the huge variety of meat-free foodstuffs...
...mudslide, still vainly pointing toward Pakistan 10 miles away. There are three or four checkpoints. Then a landslide announces the end of the road and an end to any visible relief effort. We leave our driver and are confronted by a black mud slick that extends to a peak more than 3,000 ft. above. "Are you looking for dead bodies?" asks a young man carrying a box on his shoulders. He points to the slide. "There are 90 dead bodies in that." Tawoos Hussain Manhas, 20, is a civil servant who works in the capital of Indian Kashmir, Srinagar...