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Still, in Yuma County, where gasoline costs around $3.35 per gal. in recent weeks--ethanol E85 fuel was $2.43 per gal.--seldom is heard a discouraging word. Even Brad Rock, who is being hit hard by rising feed prices for the 4,000 head of cattle on his Box Elder Ranch in nearby Wray, admits that the ethanol projects "are good for the community from a jobs perspective...
...Mascha poured Antipodes, a nearly mineral-free, lightly carbonated water from New Zealand, which, because of its neutral pH, tasted pleasantly sweet against the soft cheese. With my tagliatelle with ragout, I drank a medium-carbonated, high-calcium Italian water. We also had one water that flowed through volcanic rock (Hawaiian Springs), two from melted glaciers (Hawaii's Kona Deep and Canada's unpleasantly sour 10 Thousand BC) and water freshly bottled from Tasmanian rain (Tasmanian Rain). To my surprise, the waters did taste different. Or felt different. Buying an occasional bottle of water no longer seemed insane...
...poetry is dead, who killed it? In the 19th century it was a vital part of Western culture. Writers like Byron and Tennyson were practically rock stars. "Every newspaper in the U.S. printed poems," says Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. "At the end of Longfellow's life, his birthday was like a national holiday...
...Fellow students ask if we’re affiliated with the birth control,” Klein says. (They are not.) In the past year, Klein has also set out on her own as a soloist. And she is the guitarist for the Sinister Turns, a co-ed indie rock group. She has juggled all this while working as a WHRB radio host and as a member of The Harvard Advocate’s poetry board. And she will graduate tomorrow with an array of accolades—a Hoopes Prize for her creative-writing thesis, induction into...
...other end of the spectrum lies the government department, Harvard’s second-largest concentration, with 206 graduating seniors. Government garnered a rock-bottom rating of 3.04 in The Crimson’s survey. Only the biology concentration—which is in the process of being disbanded—scored lower, with an average rating of 3.02. (This fall, sophomores will not have the option of majoring in biology, but instead will choose among several sub-disciplines, including chemical and physical biology, molecular and cellular biology, neurobiology, and organismic and evolutionary biology...