Word: southeast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even while he governed the University from the southeast corner of Mass. Hall, Bok was a vocal voice in debates on the role of higher education in society. During his tenure as Harvard’s 25th president, Bok penned numerous essays and three books on the matter...
...winter in the Transvolcanic Mountains of central Mexico, about 90 miles west of Mexico City, where they have inspired a growing tourism business. Lepidopterists had been worried that the butterfly population wouldn't bounce back, but it has--and gloriously so. Monarchs have shown up in Texas and the Southeast. They should reach the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic in late April, and the Northeast and Canada in May. To track the migration, go to learner.org/jnorth or monarchwatch.org The butterflies' next big challenge will come when they return to central Mexico, where logging--which provides more jobs than ecotourism...
...cacti to a sophisticated understanding of electronics. He repaired calculators, mobile phones and even assembled his own computer. "There were moments when he knew more than his teachers," says Pavel Bílek, director of a grade school Adamec attended in his hometown of Humpolec, about 100 km southeast of Prague. But Adamec was also taunted by his classmates, because his mother walked him to school until he was 13 and because of his weight. He withdrew into himself. He came straight home after school and spent his free time improving his Web-design skills. "His only friends were...
...SARS in perspective, plain influenza (which comes from southeast Asia and probably exploited the same mechanism that SARS did to become infectious) kills between a quarter and half a million people each year. The deadly Hantavirus, which was discovered in the U.S. in 1993, kills half of its victims. By contrast, SARS kills only about four percent if its victims, and has infected about 2,700 people as of Saturday...
...District Attorney spokesperson Emily LaGrassa, Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers responded at 1:50 a.m. Saturday morning to a report of a stabbing outside Pizza Ring, at the corner of Western Avenue and Howard Street. The restaurant is less than a 15-minute walk from Mather House and the southeast corner of campus...