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...there three to six times a week. Since then, she has resorted to the Winthrop House gym, with its one treadmill, one elliptical machine, one bike, and a handful of weight machines. In the wake of the MAC’s closing, students like Buckley are placing an added strain on House gyms, prompting some Houses to prepare special accommodations. “We had a number of requests from individual Houses for equipment,” said Wendy Healy, area manager for the MAC and the Law School’s Hemenway Gym. “We didn?...
Jacobs-Lorena and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University have taken a different approach to combating malaria. They have engineered a mosquito that produces an extra protein in its gut, which blocks the malarial parasite from infecting it. The team recently discovered unexpectedly that one of their engineered mosquito strains is “fitter” than ordinary mosquitoes. Once you infect it with a certain strain of mouse-borne malaria parasite, it lives longer and produces more offspring than infected wild-type mosquitoes. Place equal numbers of the two types of mosquitoes into the same cage...
...suicides that have plagued Virginia campuses. The measure’s sponsor, Albert C. Eisenberg, claims that the legislation will force universities to offer proper care, yet while the proposal is clearly well-intentioned, placing restrictions on universities’ reactions to mental health crises puts an undo strain on medical resources, and ultimately hurts the very people it intends...
...arrived at an answer to my question: I prefer local to organic, even with the concessions local farmers must make. I realize there's something romantic about the desire to know exactly where your food is from. Among true agrarians, that desire carries a reactionary strain, a suspicion of modernity. "Instead of relying on the accumulated wisdom of a cuisine, or even on the wisdom of our senses, we rely on expert opinion," journalist Michael Pollan wrote in last year's acclaimed book The Omnivore's Dilemma. "We place our faith in science to sort out what culture once...
Rinere added in an e-mail to The Crimson that she did not expect the new advising program to cause a strain on House budgets...