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...early October, the University announced the end of its six-year, $2.1 billion capital campaign. These monies have funded buildings, professorships and academic centers--valuable to Harvard in the long-term, but remote from today's undergraduates...
...Zhenbing in China in 1996, near the end of a six-year journey around the world to write a book about humanity's environmental future. A 30-year-old economics professor who was liked on sight by virtually everyone he met, Zhenbing was my interpreter during five weeks of travel throughout China. A born storyteller, he often recalled his childhood in a tiny village northwest of Beijing. Like most Chinese peasants of that era, Zhenbing's parents were too poor to buy coal. Instead, in a climate like Boston's, where winter temperatures often plunged below zero, they burned dried...
...significance of this accomplishment is even greater, considering that Wisconsin-Stevens Point held a four-year record of 14-83-2 before Mazzoleni's appointment. Under his coaching, the Pointers recorded a winning percentage of .715, and a six-year record...
WHEN: Earlier this month, after a six-year engagement...
GOOD FOR MORE THAN THE SOUL Last week Duke University researchers reported that those 64 and older who attended weekly religious services were 46% less likely to die over a six-year period than those who went less often. Doctors think that those who attend benefit in several ways from having a larger social network. They are less likely to suffer from depression. And any new ailments they develop will probably be noticed earlier by family and friends and thus be treated more quickly...