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...Like Sumiardi, many survivors refuse to go to government shelters for fear that their few remaining possessions will be looted. And though it rained for much of last week, many prefer to sleep outdoors under tarpaulins in paddy fields or on soggy mattresses along the side of the road in case another quake strikes. Indeed, in the days following the temblor, nearly 500 aftershocks were recorded...
...House dining room. Another is that many upperclassmen, who know ‘gracious living’ only as a sardonic commentary on the present situation in the Houses, have no idea of what it’s like to have a room of their own in which to sleep and study. Having never had this experience, students can hardly be ‘concerned’ about missing it.” Some alums, however, did not remember any overcrowding during their time at Harvard.Jacob C. Landau ’56 describes his suite in Winthrop House...
...would run away--sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for a few days. At first when SaBreena disappeared, the Juarezes would call the police and go looking for her. But "that became very old because we could never find her," says Stuart. Eventually, they began leaving a sleeping bag outside the back door as a reminder that even if she didn't want to come inside, she never had to sleep on the streets. When she did come home, the Juarezes would talk to her about what happened and either ground her or give her extra chores. One technique, suggested...
...exciting to receive one. "It's like an adrenaline rush," says Kathleen, "unless it's from your mum." One of the great advantages of texting, boys say, is that it lets them avoid all contact with girls' parents. Exchanges happen late at night when parents assume their children are sleeping. Although they're in bed, sleep is the last thing on their minds. Pressed for examples of raunchy texting, a 15-year-old boy who asks to be called Lindon says, "Well, she could be explaining what she's doing to herself." Omg. Another plus, he says, is that...
...witnessed that same dogged approach to public health many years before, when he and I worked together in the early 1990s on eliminating polio in the Western Pacific?a daunting task made harder by a lack of funds and by long days without sleep...