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...every year. Sure, they rid crops of pesky insects and fungi, but most of them are carcinogenic. Although conventional farms must abide by EPA guidelines for safe levels of pesticide residue on crops, this does not protect the thousands of farm workers who suffer severe illnesses from having to spray the toxins. At current levels of pesticide residue, none of us will be suing Harvard University Dining Services for feeding us conventionally grown tomatoes at the salad bar. But long-term consequences are largely unknown and a cause for concern because of time lags between exposure and a disease?...
...have come to understand that players will undoubtedly seek out any advantage possible, legal or otherwise. Pitchers’ use of suntan lotion (the sport kind, so that it doesn’t accidentally irritate the eyes), shaving cream and even the trainer’s sticky pre-wrap spray is a daily practice. In minor league baseball the use of foreign substances is not taboo; it’s just illegal. The substance of choice is ultimately applied to the middle and index fingers of the throwing hand in order to get a better “feel?...
Riot gear, police barricades: Happy Halloween from Madison, Wis.! For the past four years, the college town's annual party--one of the country's biggest--has turned violent, causing police to deploy pepper spray and arrest hundreds. With 100,000 revelers expected to flood Madison's streets for this year's bash, the city is preparing a new party-control measure. Its main drag, State Street, will be open only to those who pay a $5 entry fee. "We're recovering some of the $600,000 in taxpayers' money spent on crowd control," says Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. "Some...
...Harvard provided the requisite hospitality and competition, serving up the delicate mix of humor and hard work that makes the regatta unique amongst fall competitions.A Harvard men’s heavyweight eight dressed as a rainbow, with coxswain Tope Amos clothed as the cloud. Two varsity lightweight eights donned spray-painted T-shirts proclaiming “Team Butt,” after varsity lightweight head coach Charley Butt.“People were laughing about that—I don’t understand why,” senior Brian Aldrich joked afterwards. “I guess they...
...situation has changed—she readily notes the five-year rise in vandalism.Despite this trend, she adds that her first experience of seeing a tag on a piece of public artwork was not insulting, but in fact very moving.Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001 she found the word HOPE spray-painted across Ukeles’ sculpture in Daheny Park.She, along with others at the CAC, was reluctant to remove it, and only did so before the winter came.And Hsu says that she is not totally certain of why these pieces in Cambridge have seemed like such attractive targets. Dollar signs...