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...influx, indeed, was "almost certainly the largest-ever single wave of immigration that these islands have ever experienced," according to John Salt, professor of geography at University College London. With 10,000 arriving in Ireland each month since 2004, the country of 4 million people experienced the fastest period of population growth since the current system for measuring migrant flows was introduced in 1987. "What happened here in two years is what happened in other countries in a generation," says Sean Murray, head of economic migration for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Dublin...
...their similarities, the two come from completely disparate backgrounds. Chu honed her skills at Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Wallingford, CT. After graduating in 2002, she became the first player of Asian descent to play for the U.S. National Team at the Olympics in Salt Lake City, where her team took home the silver. She then went on to star at Harvard, until the national squad called again for its bronze medal showing at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. This season, Chu is back with the Crimson, capping off the farewell tour of her illustrious...
Caf 150 has access to local beef from Bassian Farms in San Jose, Calif., but the restaurant can't obtain everything it needs from the valley. Take salt. "There are salt flats a quarter-mile that way," said Keller, pointing to the horizon, "but they're for industrial purposes." So he buys salt "off the truck," from a food-service deliverer...
...Believing,’” she said.And thus, an obsession was born. Generation X had the apathy of the grunge movement, but today’s youth is happy to indulge passionately and wholeheartedly—as long as they can do so with a grain of salt. We laugh about our poor choices, triumphantly exulting in our drunken mistakes and guilty pleasures. We like the political commentary of “South Park” and “Chappelle’s Show,” but we really watch them for the ridiculous and dirty...
...over on the night of Valentine’s Day, Harvard students faced the dangerous challenge of walking to and from class on roads and sidewalks covered in ice. Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Organization (FMO) was prepared for the dangers the weather would bring—stockpiling salt, sand, and ice-melt, as well as activating all on-hand personnel and hiring emergency contract workers from outside its ranks. According to Yard Operations Associate Director of Residential Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98, 65 people worked for a total of 30 hours to make the walkways...