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Expedition races usually involve groups of three or four people and may last anywhere from a few hours to 10 days--though the shorter ones are more common. Participants work as a unit to finish a devilishly designed course and stagger across the finish line together in the fastest time possible. Although the sport was first taken up by rugged outdoorsmen, women have embraced it enthusiastically. Because teamwork and stamina are as important as brute strength, coed teams tend to finish higher than all-male ones, says Troy Farrar of the U.S. Adventure Racing Association (USARA...
...School of the Arts, which Harvard has never had: all it would probably take would be a rich donor, unfortunately not me, who would be willing to give $200 million plus, making it clear that he or she would only provide that money for that purpose. In the shorter, more practical run, however, the issue is faculty review. All over Harvard, students and faculty have shown a yearning for the arts and for the granting and receiving of credit for arts practice. It happens in the music department, in Visual and Environmental Studies, in English. But it all seems sort...
...Remove Reiman from the chopping block, make studio art classes more accessible to non-VES-concentrators (fewer requirements, shorter hours), find a way to get the rest of the Harvard community to understand why it takes so many hours to create a production and the work that goes into...
After debate started in the early 1990s over whether a shorter work week would bring about a reduction in unemployment rates, members of France’s Socialist party repeatedly tried to pass legislation creating the 35-hour work week...
Although Rockwell has published several books during his career, mostly about music, his writing has always focused on shorter pieces for the newspaper...