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...Svalbard Global Seed Vault turned one on Feb. 26, an anniversary it celebrated by receiving 90,000 new samples, or four tons, of seeds. Those are in addition to the more than 400,000 unique seed samples (more than 200 million individual seeds) that have been transferred to Svalbard since the $9 million facility opened last year. (See pictures of the seed vault...
...ECAC rankings, winning 11 straight conference games with only two losses against Boston College and New Hampshire in the last six weeks. The Crimson ended its season by capturing both the Ivy League title and the ECAC title, and comes into the tournament this weekend with a first-place seed...
...first game easily, 9-1, and struggled to keep Hill off in the second, 9-7, before dropping one to him, 9-1. But Singh bounced back and sealed the match with a 9-3 fourth set.Reeves traded games with Chris Binnie before the Bantam’s ninth seed put the game away (9-3, 3-9, 9-3, 9-5). The Crimson did not fare any better after Reeves’ loss, failing to provide much competition for Trinity.Eliot Buchanan challenged the Bantam’s Parth Sharma in the second set in a heated 10-8 contest...
...untimely one: five years later, in 2003, journalist Wendell Steavenson arrived in Iraq to "learn more about the locked-in years of Saddam's regime" and chose Sachet as the prism through which those years might best be refracted. In the resulting book, The Weight of a Mustard Seed (the title is a quote from the Koran), she tries to understand why Iraqis who deplored what was happening to their country became Saddam's accomplices. "How," she asks, "do ordinary little human cogs make up a torture machine...
...Coriel’s class proves that the University can still provide an innovative arts curriculum despite an economic downturn. “Of course the economy is impacting everything that this university is doing,” says Megan. “But I think that continuing to seed new intensive, high impact engagements with teaching artists remains important.” Smaller initiatives like this seminar can maintain the momentum that the first report generated and provide students with new opportunities to interact with the art world.According to Megan, Harvard will host a number of artists in residence...