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...than a million wildebeest - also known as gnus - crossing from the Serengeti in Tanzania to Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve and then back again in the search of fresh grass makes for some dramatic action shots, as massive herds travel across the plains before plunging into the Mara River to swim to greener pastures...
...strong current claim some victims. The numbers, though, are bizarre. The migration rarely leaves more than a few thousand dead; but this year, an estimated 10,000, or about 1% of the wildebeest population, were wiped out. Conservationists say the wildebeest simply chose the wrong point to cross the river, one where the bank on the other side was too steep to climb. As those in the front drowned, they trapped those behind them...
BOSTON—Harvard received unanimous approval yesterday to build its 589,000-square-foot science complex in Allston, the first project to get the go-ahead in the University’s 50-year planned expansion across the Charles River...
...historic bells from Danilov Monastery in Moscow, which an American industrialist purchased from Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union and gave to the University in 1930. When the bells arrived over 70 years ago, 17 of them went to Lowell House. But one was sent across the Charles River after a bell expert determined that two of them were too close in tone to be sounded at the same time. Yesterday’s ceremony marked another chapter in the decades-long saga to send the bells home and to commission and cast replacements for Harvard. The Business School?...
...sense, at our feet,” she said. “But with these enormous assets also come enormous responsibilities.” The students dispersed after Faust’s speech. One group laid mulch in a hospital parking lot, another picked up litter near the Charles River, and a third conducted what one student called a “search-and-destroy mission for invasive plant species.” Santosh P. Bhaskarabhatla ’09, the field captain of a project at the West End House Boys & Girls Club, beautified a graffiti-covered wall, working...