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...first large-scale study estimating the impact of a combination of lifestyle factors on mortality, the research team found that subscribing to healthy lifestyle factors—not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and diet, and exercising regularly—dramatically reduces the risk of dying...
...scale of these developments, plus the sewer gases and styrene that Harvard’s construction has released in our neighborhood this summer, can sometimes cause us to lose some sleep. Our most immediate concern, though, is a large real estate project Harvard set in motion but now disavows: the relocation of the Charlesview Apartments...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, two world-famous artists who have stirred controversy over the years with their large-scale projects, received a Harvard Law School award yesterday in recognition of their skill in negotiating permission for their works. The Great Negotiator Award is given annually by the Law School’s Program on Negotiation and has historically been awarded to figures in business and international diplomacy. Christo and Jeanne-Claude—a married couple recently known for their 2005 project “The Gates” in Central Park, which featured over 7,500 bright orange structures...
...sheer scale of the carnage cannot be denied. Sydney Schanberg, then the New York Times's South Asia correspondent, described the month-long Pakistani crackdown in March 1971 as "a pogrom on a vast scale" in a land where "vultures grow fat." (He would famously win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting five years later on Cambodia's killing fields.) Passing through the charred husks of villages razed by West Pakistani troops, he heard whispered story after story of mass executions of Hindus, college students and anybody suspected of Bengali nationalism. Neighborhoods were gutted as Bangladesh's main cities fell...
...With a salvo of new policy initiatives and a volley of contempt against his opponents, Brown gave Labour members a reason to cheer. But by that evening, the delegates' euphoria was ebbing once again, as they contemplated the scale of the recovery needed if Labour is to secure another term...