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...number of homeless individuals in Cambridge has increased by almost 10 percent over the past two years, according to 2008 homeless census results released by Cambridge last week. However, these numbers do not necessarily correlate with escalating economic problems in Cambridge, said Fred Berman, the census’ coordinator. The 487 homeless persons counted by city census workers in January 2008 marks a 55 person increase from 2007, due mostly to a seven percent increase in homeless families living in Cambridge shelters. Berman said that the increase in homelessness is mostly a result of the beginning of a new transitional...
...make a clock have a little bit of human emotion,” he says. His tendency to blur lines is evident as he compares his painting of architectural lamps to flowers and the side view of a clock to a cityscape. Eighty percent of painting is the preparation, according to Powers, who will spend up to a week making the canvas for a piece. “The worst thing is making canvases,” he says. “You want to be out painting.” Nonetheless, he believes that the preparation is vital...
...Fijian populace—where women were traditionally very comfortable with varying body images—was radically changed within three years by the introduction of television. (Fiji was one of the last places on Earth to receive television access.) The community began to obsess over dieting, and 11 percent of teenage girls began making themselves throw up to lose weight, a comparable level to Massachusetts. The panelists emphasized the importance of discussing these issues in the public eye, even at Harvard. “I feel like the most important thing we need to do on campus...
...exactly what I wanted to do, and law school seemed like the place to go if you don’t know that,” he continues.He had spent years treating music as a release and consciously shirking the fundamentals. “I wish I were 10 percent as focused and studious with music as I was as a student at the university,” he says.” I have a lot of conditioning against that.”Little by little, discipline has crept into his music. When he decided to pursue music...
...John Karefa-Smart, who will turn 93 in June, said he would spend the rest of his life working to improve Sierra Leone’s 80-percent illiteracy rate...