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Many vegetarian cheese-lovers on campus were apparently concerned about whether dining hall cheeses contain rennet—extract of animal stomach membrane used to curdle milk—and posed the question to Harvard’s Food Literacy Project [http://www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/about.html]. In response, HUDS recently reviewed every kind of cheese used in the dining halls, leaving no slice or shred unturned. The verdict? All cheeses are innocent except for one—the sliced American...
From an email sent from Theresa McCulla, the Food Literacy Project administrator...
...part of a restoration project of Franklin D. Roosevelt's old suite, the House is throwing a feast with Blue Point oysters, beef Richelieu, live piano music, and a string quartet playing songs from the Victorian era. The whole project is supposed to illustrate how far Harvard has come from its blue-Blooded roots, but, uh, surprise! The 6 p.m. dinner is ticket/invite only. Bet you can crash it, though...
Some communities are not comfortable with children browsing foreign advertising, entertainment, and general worldviews whenever they like. There’s a legitimate fear the OLPC pushes flashy consumerism and invasive technology on peoples. Mohammed Diop, a Malinese economist, has attacked the project as an attempt to exploit poor nations by making them pay for millions of impractical machines. To many who are used to a history of false promises and downright lies, allowing a U.S. company to hold a financial stake in the education of their children is anathema...
...afford homes of their own for the first time. As a result, residential construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950. In 1947, William Levitt turned 4,000 acres of Long Island, New York, potato farms into the then largest privately planned housing project in American history. With 30 houses built in assembly-line fashion every day - each with a tree in the front yard - the American subdivision was born...