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...risen from the ashes of war. Japan spent $3 billion on those Games and sprinted past Germany for third place in the gold-medal count. In their patriotic frenzy, most Japanese medalists deferentially linked their victories to the country's remarkable economic rise. Still, the compulsion to reap gold for national honor sometimes proved disastrous: in 1968, a Japanese marathoner who had won bronze in the Tokyo Games committed suicide after injuries looked set to prevent him from attending the Mexico City Olympics, where he had hoped to better his third-place finish for the sake of his country. Today...
...eight Houses in Allston—leaving the College with five more Houses than at present—is a signal of the eventual expansion of the undergraduate student body. Increasing the size of the College would erase the improvements in academics and student life that undergraduates will soon reap thanks to the ongoing review of the College curriculum. The curricular review’s report has recommended decreasing class sizes, recruiting more faculty and offering students more one-on-one faculty advising. The eight-House Allston plan could add nearly 1,500 undergraduates to flood already overflowing lecture halls...
...heard about a promising new pilot program from Aetna called Healthy Body, Healthy Weight, that breaks new ground in helping overweight patients and reimbursing primary care doctors for time spent on this. We heard suggestions to build financial incentives into our health insurance systems so that companies and individuals reap benefits from changing to a healthier lifestyle, diet and weight. How about a pilot program on that...
...change, with an innovative project in Cambodia granting street kids a chance to work in the upper echelons of the hospitality industry. Shinta Mani, tel: (855) 63 761 998, is a crisply designed, 18-room, $130-per-night boutique hotel, which opened last year in Siem Reap, 6 km from Angkor Wat. But it also doubles as a vocational training institute, and its first classes, for some 16 youngsters, began earlier this month. The students?some of whom previously survived by scavenging in the city's refuse heaps?will learn everything from tidying beds to scrambling eggs. Shinta Mani...
This month Cody will reap a huge personal reward for her efforts: Elizabeth will graduate from high school. A few years ago, Cody sat watching Elizabeth's pep squad perform at a football game, wearing red, white and blue, the school colors. "Suddenly I'm watching, and I realize I can't pick her out of the crowd. She wasn't so bad!" says Cody. "I just burst into tears. I never ever thought I would see the day when she'd just be one of the girls in high school, out there on the field with all the other...