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This distance is ameliorated in part by the super convenient shuttle. When you have a 10 a.m. class in Northwest Labs during the nastiest sleet-rain-blizzard in February, you’ll thank the River Gods that you don’t live in some of the other River Houses, which are roughly equidistant to the Yard but sadly shuttle-less...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Dunster House | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...There were] very tough conditions this weekend, because it was freezing, and today the sleet made the racing pretty challenging,” Powers said. “The wind shifts direction very often, so a lot of this weekend was working on focusing on predicting how the wind would shift...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Regattas Offer Varied Results | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...buying this fall that’s on trend? Baird: High-waisted skinny jeans. Very 1940s. Lonergan: I’m looking for some chunky gold jewelry. I think it’s coming back. Dagogo-Jack: I avoid trends. FM: The weather in Cambridge sucks—rain, sleet, snow. What do you wear when the elements threaten to ruin your night? el Habashy: I don’t care about this question. Polino: One really cool thing you can wear when it’s shitty out. This year, it’s going to be a knee...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Week with Students Stylists | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Wednesday night in the middle of February and you have just spent the past twelve hours in Lamont writing a ten-page research paper. The cobblestoned streets outside are coated with that special Cambridge mix of a black ice, fresh sleet, and grimy snow. All you want to do is hitch a ride back to the quad on the warm shuttle and crawl under your covers. Well…too bad. Instead you are going to have to make that twelve-minute trek up Garden Street on foot. The Crimson broke the news that the university plans to trim shuttle...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons | Title: Budget Plinko, Part II: Shuttle Shafting | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...paper." Holmes describes us quite wonderfully, and she's a tireless compiler of biological trivia. She scours the extremes of the earth for anomalous and specially adapted humans, like the Tierra del Fuegians, who (before they died out) wore no more than a loose animal skin even in sleet and snow, and the Yana Indians of California, whose men and women speak different dialects. She has an engaging passion for rankings, as if all earthly fauna were competitors in an endless evolutionary Olympics. Our sense of taste, for example, outperforms a pigeon's and a tiger's (it turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Inner Animal | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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