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...essential change mentioned in the report is renovating house dining facilities to allow for longer and more flexible dining-hall hours. This proposal is sure to be greeted with delight by nocturnal students craving something more substantial than a slice of bread from brain break after their dinner at an hour better suited to an early-bird special. Many students stay up long past the time when food is available, and extending dining-hall hours would reduce the need for students to spend additional money on food outside of the dining hall...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Change We Can Believe In | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...economists looked at companies with fewer than 50 employees, and those with more than 1,000, going back to the 1970s-a period that spanned four business cycles. They found that the bigger firms, after adjusting for their larger share of the workforce, account for a greater slice of job destruction during and after recessions-whether through layoffs or simply not hiring workers they would have otherwise. Immediately coming out of a recession, smaller companies were an unusually important source of new job growth, but once economic expansion really took hold, large companies resumed the role of job-creator, added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Large Companies Losing More Jobs Than Small Ones? | 2/28/2009 | See Source »

...dining hall cheeses contain rennet—extract of animal stomach membrane used to curdle milk—and posed the question to Harvard’s Food Literacy Project [http://www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/about.html]. In response, HUDS recently reviewed every kind of cheese used in the dining halls, leaving no slice or shred unturned. The verdict? All cheeses are innocent except for one—the sliced American...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: A Cheesy Public Service Announcement | 2/28/2009 | See Source »

...pretty uneventful game so far, Crimson staff writer and resident Scotsman Allen Padua added some excitement by wolfing down a vegetable pizza slice in the press box, exhibiting some ruthless efficiency yet still somehow managing to maintain his Old World dignity...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LIVE BLOG: Women's Hockey vs. Cornell ECAC Playoffs Game 2 | 2/28/2009 | See Source »

Certainly, improving tourists' stays is the best way for Paris to hang on to the largest slice of a global tourism pie valued at nearly $900 billion. To that end, Paris is rolling out a campaign introducing new quality standards for businesses serving tourists, the goal being to get Parisians to act with greater hospitality out of economic self-interest (since go-out-of-your-way kindness to strangers is not, shall we say, a particular Parisian strength). Tourism boards have set up information and hospitality offices at airports and throughout metro Paris. To address the looming shortfall of hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Much Greater Paris | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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