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...squash variety. Students can make a pit stop at Boston College since they’re already in Chestnut Hill. Cons: After the 45-minute bus ride, students must embark on a 15-minute trek to the farm. Imagine how enjoyable the return trip is with a 40-pound pumpkin in each hand. Shelburne Farm 106 West Acton Road, Stow Pros: “Pick-your-own” policy provides an excellent selection of pumpkins at this traditional pumpkin patch. For the adventurous, Shelburne Farm offers hayrides, pony rides, tractor rallies, and a moon bounce. Cons: Screaming kids...
...separate world is an illusion,” a visiting Harvard Law School professor told the 50-odd audience members gathered yesterday in the Thompson Room in the Barker Center. In a speech titled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon criticized the encroachment of pornography into everyday life. The belief that pornography operates underground, she said, causes people to ignore obscene material that is right under their noses. “No matter how real and harmful pornography gets, it seems to live...
...penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness may antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round and fat, few weigh lesse then fifty pound, are reputed of more for wonder then for food, greasie stomackes may seeke after them, but to the delicate, they are offensive and of no nourishment,” according to Clara Pinto-Correia’s book “Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad, Strange Tale...
...half hours after Alexandra M. Hays ’’09 is given 24 dollars and 24 hours to construct an outfit for FM’s fashion challenge, she is poking through the sea of $1.50 a pound clothing the Garment District. Hays is on a mission to find something “black and silky,” which she plans to transform into a dress with a collage of Drew Faust’s face on the back. She collects items haphazardly, but balks when she realizes that the clothes weigh more than 20 pounds...
...even draw the short straw when it comes to treatment. Doses of conventional chemotherapy are determined partly by a patient's height and weight, but mounting evidence suggests that certain ethnic groups absorb the chemicals differently. Researchers in Singapore have shown that Caucasian patients may require higher doses per pound of body weight than non-Caucasians. Since most dosing regimens are calibrated to the Western body, some doctors in Singapore report having to adjust quantities in up to 30% of their patients to avoid adverse side effects. "Local scientists must do their own research and find their own regimens," says...