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...Lurie allowed The Crimson to read, the council bounced 95 checks in the late spring and in the early summer, resulting in $1,873 in overdraft fees. The checks bounced due to delays in the transfer of funds from Harvard to the council’s bank account, a pile-up of grant requests at the end of the spring and poor monitoring of the council’s available funds...
...goosenecking them, an origami-style process that involves repeated twisting and tying. A dry night's sleep depends on such art. The campsite must also be kept as pristine as possible, which, as Pat explains to a shocked group on our first night, necessitates the use of a pile of clear plastic bags sitting next to the roll of toilet paper. Lugging to the raft the tightly sealed steel box in which those bags will accumulate is no one's favorite job. But the cruelest chore of every morning is simply getting dressed: crawling out of a warm sleeping...
...Chaoyang hospital in central Beijing is an unlikely place to seek cutting-edge treatment. Orderlies in the shabby five-story building pile surplus furniture in the crowded hallways and push patients around on jerry-rigged gurneys made with bicycle wheels. Yet Nan Davis has traveled halfway around the globe to undergo a new procedure available only here. Six hours ago, Dr. Huang Hongyun injected 1.5 million fetal cells into her damaged spinal cord. Davis, a teacher from Ohio, hasn't walked since 1978 after a car crash left her paralyzed from the bottom of her rib cage down. Shortly after...
...Compared to years past, it's a small group that assembles in Mount Isa for this June-July dig. Volunteers have previously swelled the team to a force of more than 50. This time it's just nine workers - six men, three women (plus some family) - who pile into several sturdy vehicles for the four-hour trip across rough road. Teams used to camp by the banks of the Gregory River, and regulars speak wistfully of those times. Alas, local authorities banned the practice, pushing the scientists a little further north to the more comfortable, if less invigorating, facilities...
...says Gormley, 54, who spotted the town and its lake from the air after a week's search for a suitable site. "What's amazing is that, yes, it may be a place that's lost its grip on being a destination. That in a way the trucks just pile through without slowing down. But at the same time, you can go to the graveyard or you can go to the pub, and you can talk to the people and they will tell you why they're there and what their story of getting there...