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...Africa, and the entire country will be wireless by the end of the year. Rwanda is also clean, thanks to a ban on plastic bags since 2005 and a mandatory national "tidy up" one afternoon each month, in which even government ministers clean the streets. Partly as a result, and partly because of careful rain-forest management and a mountain gorilla baby boom, Rwanda is also a growing eco-tourism destination. The government says the economy as a whole will grow 6.5% this year...
...poorly to allow students, as Brown does, to drop classes until final examination period starts, which virtually ensures that students can escape any responsibility for their academic performance. It is also necessary to remind ourselves that being forced to struggle through difficult work—even when the end result is underperformance or failure—has value, however painful it may be. Nevertheless, the drop/add period is invaluable in allowing the intellectually curious to explore subjects without fear of being locked into a class that they later regret taking. We hope Harvard students take the intellectual risks that this...
...final match against Tara Joy Connelly. The Massachusetts tournament was held at The Country Club in Brookline, which happens to be Sheldon’s home course. She says that she can’t play her best “when thinking about an outcome or end result,” and in trying not to harbor any expectations for herself, “didn’t prepare any differently than for any other tournament.”Coach Rhoads is pleased that his golfers do not seem to feel any additional pressure after their summer successes. Winning...
...represented at the Singlehanded Nationals,” Watson said. The New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship, which was held in Bristol, R.I., was a series of individual races, though Watson still gives her team credit in her success. “That result reflects a lot of the training we’ve been doing as a team,” Waston said. “It’s an individual result, but it’s the result of a team effort.” Also representing the Crimson in the contest was junior Roberta...
...basic emergency infrastructure. So the rational thing to do would be to focus our limited resources on high-density, high-risk locations. But Congress is not rational. The Senate gives disproportionate power to small states, and those states do not want to lose their homeland-security entitlements. So the result is a new, not-so-improved formula: one small step for homeland security, one giant leap for politicians...