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High school extracurricular activities had regular hours. But here, you may find yourself awake at 5:30 a.m. rowing on the Charles River or burning the midnight oil doling soup to Cambridge homeless or putting the finishing touches on a campus publication. With 250 independent student organizations, your identity at Harvard is often intermeshed with how you spend your time away from your books...
...total silence and cut all communication with the outside world. Only the traditional monastery attire of gray pants and jacket is allowed, and beds are bare futon mats on the floor. Food is plain, vegetarian and served with elaborate ceremony at formal meals. A typical evening dinner comprises rice, soup and a few vegetable dishes. Everything that's served has to be eaten. Retreats cost $175 a week, $585 a month or $1,200 for the full three months. Call (82-2) 900-4326 or e-mail sizc@soback.kornet.net...
...international community did something, but perhaps not enough. They ladled an alphabet soup of international bureaucracy onto the potential trouble spot, beginning with "fyrom," the initials of the awkward circumlocution - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - meant to assuage the Greeks' opposition to the use of the very name Macedonia. Then there was unprofor, the United Nations Protection Force - later unpredep, for U.N. Preventive Deployment - which put a Nordic battalion and an American task force along Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently...
...Swedish Fish, Progresso soup and bananas...
...evolutionary eye-blink (if we keep our noses to the grindstone for the next few hundred years or so) we will likely understand the biochemical soup that is our body and be able to manipulate it at will, extending life indefinitely. With humans on the cusp of technology-induced functional immortality, I feel ripped off. I am part of the last few of the millions of generations that will not taste the almost infinite fruits of our long evolutionary assent. It is time to cheat fate...