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Though pizza and candy are commonly given out at Harvard events, rare are the opportunities to find free, healthy alternatives. At yesterday’s Harvest of Health, the annual Harvard University Health Services fair, students gained access to UHS’ many services, leaving the tent loaded with bags full of healthy goodies. Linda C. Cannon, a patient advocate who has coordinated the fair for the last three years, estimated that approximately 2,000 students passed through the white tent outside the Science Center, a number comparable to previous years. “Our objective is to spread awareness...
...Badarpur village, with its dusty, pungent streets and tumbledown tenements, is far removed from the confident affluence of Nehru Place. Inside a tiny, cluttered room lit by a single tube-light, nine girls are waiting for their bhaiyya, - 'older brother' in Hindi. An all-girl class is rare; parents who are unable to afford education for their children usually shelve daughters' education first. According to UN figures, 42 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not in school in India. The national literacy rate of girls over seven years is 54%, compared to 75% for boys...
...Russell Mittermeier, the president of Conservation International (CI) and a renowned primatologist, made the call. Tucked inside a hollow tree trunk were two greater bamboo lemurs, each the length of a forearm, staring back at us with orange eyes. We grabbed our cameras and began snapping. It was a rare sight - too rare, with only around 150 individuals estimated to still be alive. "You're looking at the most endangered primate on the planet," said Mittermeier...
...It’s rare for physics to make the news, but somehow the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator run by the CERN laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border, became a bona-fide celebrity. There hasn’t been a tube this famous since the London subway. The collider’s renown is likely because most of the news about it has been bizarre: The Wall Street Journal ran an article about physicists there studying with a comedy coach to help them think creatively. A rap about the collider reached three million views on YouTube. Rumors...
...wording of the French proposal may sidestep this issue altogether. A more nuanced request to protect the small businesses—tiny charcuteries, family restaurants, cheese makers, rare turnip producers—that make the well-fed-village atmosphere of France possible may underlie the media’s sensationalized version of the proposal...