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...start of the new school year has added increased activity to Harvard’s wireless network, slowing down or interrupting Internet connections for most students in river Houses...

Author: By Jillian M. Bunting, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wireless Woes Irk Students | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...your foot. And at only $15 a pot, it’s not just Mother Earth that will save a little green, Harvard will, too, in long-term water costs. There may be one disadvantage to the new handles, though. Different flushes mean different noises, and in the cozy river Houses, the whole suite might know the exact nature of your business. But if this is the price of choice, then it seems it’s a price worth paying...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Up For Number One | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland?at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco War, was a sleepy backwater, 600 miles by river from the sea, cobblestone-quaint but short on manpower and desperately poor ... Stroessner got off to a dictator's ironfisted start, organizing a tough secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asunci?n capital, functionaries keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...have an opportunity to finally break free from the suffocating lasciviousness that previously defined them. With narrower mattresses, Currier can stand as an equal with such greats as Dunster, Winthrop, and Lowell, whose residents maintain celibacy by sleeping in wobbly bunk beds wedged into walk-through triples. If the river houses hope to maintain their scholarly edge over the formerly unbridled Currierites, they will need to invest in their own spoon-free mattresses. In the meantime, Currier residents must keep in mind: it’s not 33.5 inches thin, its 33.5 inches of discipline and academic promise...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Narrow Proposition | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

SOUTH DAKOTA Native American men residing here fare the worst, on average living only to age 58 MISSISSIPPI RIVER Life expectancy for counties immediately east and west of the Mississippi River is 76.6 and 77.2, respectively APPALACHIA AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Low income whites here die on average four years sooner than their neighbors in the rural Northern Plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Live Here and Prosper | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

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