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...feel like Harvard at all. For all the things Harvard does well, cultivating spirit isn’t usually one of them. On a campus where the majority of students spend their Friday evenings studying or fanning out to various exclusive social clubs, it’s rare to find a night time activity that’s fun for all. Night games not only connect the entire Harvard student body, but they also foster a sense of solidarity with the rest of the country: one that realized the lure of football long ago. Go Crimson...
...hard to pinpoint the precise draw of reality TV: There's the vicarious thrill of talent competitions like American Idol, with its promise of stardom for shower-singers; there's the rare chance to feel superior by tuning in to watch someone being voted out of a room. Most powerful is that, at their intimate best, the shows can out-dramatize fictional TV drama. In The Real World's third season, 20-year-old Pedro Zamora, a gay educator, came out as HIV-positive to his housemates, one of whom harassed him; married a fellow AIDS educator on camera...
...warmer parts of the Mediterranean; comparable outcomes can be expected in other temperate parts of the world as climate change kicks in. A similar effect will also be felt in the northward shift of what is known as the hardiness zones - meaning that northern countries where allergies were once rare may no longer be as safe. "Those borderline northern regions will definitely feel changes," says Ratner...
Vice President DICK CHENEY, during a rare trip abroad, accusing Russia of selling weapons to Iran and using "brute force" against Georgia...
...been facilitated by industrial feedlots, which bleed antibiotics and other noxious chemicals. And of course, the human health impact of too much meat can be seen in everything from bloated waistlines in America to rising rates of cardiovascular disease in developing nations, where heart attacks were once as rare as a T-bone steak...