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...ball, especially if you are a designer like Prada, who is widely considered one of the most adventurous when it comes to how far she will push the textile mills in new directions. She loves to tell the story of kid mohair, a kind of plush, teddy-bear-like pile fabric that was considered completely uncommercial before she used it in a menswear collection for spring 2002. "I was forbidden to use it," she says with a laugh, "and of course, it became a best seller...
...madness, Stephen T. Norberg ’06 rummages through his belongings and discovers a framed piece of thick paper decorated with a whimsical owl and a smartly dressed pig. It’s his kindergarten diploma. Carefully navigating the chaos, his left arm almost destroying a perfectly folded pile of undershirts, he crosses the room and secures the diploma onto the blank wall above his wooden desk. Pausing for several moments as his exhausted roommates look on in wonderment, he finally utters, “Wow! It’s great to be in first grade...
Because my expertise is limited to five and a half seasons’ worth of loyal 24 viewing (as the hours pile up, I am forced to ask myself if maybe there was something more productive I could have done with this almost-week of my life than obsessively track the exploits of super-agent Jack Bauer. The answer, of course is no.) and a couple of seasons on the staff of the Greenwich Village Little League Cubs, I decided to enlist the opinions of several Harvard baseball players...
...more often than not, we as individuals are the primary culprits of our sleep deprivation. We load up on too many classes and activities, factoring in sleep—if at all—as an annoying afterthought to be squeezed in. No one makes us pile on these commitments, but anything less feels “below average.” It takes a courageous (or utterly detached) Harvard student to risk “inferiority,” especially in the name of sleeping well. So when we look around and begin to consider the Harvard sleep culture...
...electricity wastage, but what about the rest of the environmental mess that comes with using a computer? The energy-intensive process of refining and molding plastic means that your computer monitor alone is responsible for a cloud of emissions. And when you eventually toss that monitor on the scrap pile, it'll take years to break down and will likely leak a pool of chemical nasties into the ground. But computing doesn't have to cost the earth...