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...police officer. "Here, control is even stronger because no one talks." Not a single arrest has been made for any of the past year's 23 murders in this stretch of eastern Calabria. Local residents say that they are not complicit in omertà, the mob code of protective silence. But most are scared that the government cannot protect them if they talk. Lingering in front of the cathedral after Fortugno's funeral, Giuseppe Macri, 50, says he was skeptical that all the strong words spoken from the pulpit would be followed by action. "Calabria is the most neglected region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Comes To Locri | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...want to hear, ‘Here’s your degree from Harvard, presented by such-and-such a company.’”The rules are meant to prevent large companies from advertising all over the Yard, Zong realized—to protect the Harvard campus from the kind of commercialization that has overtaken so much of America’s public space.Friedman and Vandenberg are now reconsidering the scope of what they can do with the JetBlue name, and any future promotions they try to pull off will have to be cleared with Kidd. However...

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Buying Harvard | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...were threatened: the Texas oil infrastructure and his poll ratings. Brandon Bittner Royersford, Pennsylvania, U.S. Building a major city on a low-lying swamp in a hurricane corridor is about as intelligent as building a house of cards on a bowling lane. The only way to absolutely protect New Orleans from a Katrina-like situation ever happening again is never to rebuild. It is wrong to blame the Bush Administration for decades of inaction by many, many administrations. Low taxes are not to blame, and less government is not to blame. A society that promotes dependence on government to always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Making Hurricanes Worse? | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...blockbuster “Erin Brockovich,” starring actress Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for the role.But many scientists insist that no link has been established between the contaminants in the water and the cancer cases in Hinkley, Calif. According to studies published by the Environmental Protection Agency and available on its website, “No data were located in the available literature that suggested that chromium-6 is carcinogenic by the oral route of exposure.” HSPH alum and president of the American Council of Science and Health Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan boycotted...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brockovich Awarded SPH’s Highest Honor | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...year,” said Dr. Sean Palfrey, who is clinical professor of pediatrics at Boston University and master of Adams House. “We probably have enough [doses] to vaccinate the people who need it most and we have a supply which should come in time to protect [people] for at least the peak flu season, if not the entire flu season.” But Palfrey said there will not “be enough vaccines for every healthy adult” this year. As in years past, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is collaborating with...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flu Vaccines Face Limits | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

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