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Elizabeth Gilbert The longtime journalist is the author of the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Sister Mary Scullion has helped reduce the number of people living on the streets of Philadelphia by half. Over 95% of those who cycle through her Project H.O.M.E. program have never again become homeless, a success rate that has made the program a model for dozens of other U.S. cities...
Craig Newmark Craigslist's founder started the site--now one of the Net's busiest--as a fun side project. His new tour is a reminder of why Leonard Cohen has influenced musicmakers for decades. He continues to reconnect his fans to their spiritual life and values with songs I regard as prayer, like "Democracy," "Anthem" and "In My Secret Life...
Student entrepreneurs were awarded a total of $80,000 in prize money to help them develop and execute their business projects at yesterday’s I3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge. The night’s largest catches came in the form of three $15,000 McKinley Family Grants, which went to a Web-heavy slate that included online enterprises geared towards providing free SAT prep to low-income students, making holiday travel cheaper, and navigating New York City more easily. The I3 event was intended to spur greater student interest in entrepreneurship projects, which tend to go underrepresented...
...more receptive to student feedback. The new website design is a great improvement, with easier access to menu information and a link to HUDS executive director Ted Mayer’s blog on dining at Harvard. The blog provides detailed information on HUDS programs like the Food Literacy Project and the activities of the HUDS Student-Faculty Advisory Committee. It also posts answers to student questions about Harvard dining and indicates changes that have been made in response to student requests. We hope that HUDS will continue this trend of improvement and increased attention to student input...
...highly promising” research, which will illicit massive funding. In the ‘70s , investigators said they were within “striking distance” of understanding cancer cells, in 1984 AIDS specialists predicted a vaccine within three years, and in 2000 the genome project was going to revolutionize medicine. While few stem cell promoters would promise, as did former Senator John Edwards, that persons in wheelchairs would be walking, researchers do encourage the expectation that cures for everything from diabetes to Alzheimer’s are in the offing...