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...Prof. Sven Beckert, Thursday October 29th...
Yesterday morning, Chijoff-Evans faced Binghampton’s Sven Vloedgraven in a match where the Crimson junior came out with zeal but ran out of energy quick. Chijoff-Evans took the first set, 3-6, but failed to win the last...
...Designs by the label Allerleirauh, founded in 1986 by Katharina Reinwald and Angelika Kroker, and the work of fashion photographers such as Sven Marquart and Sybille Bergemann reflected the atmosphere of decline. Clothes by Allerleirauh used mainly dark colors and lots of leather - a material that was hard to come by in the G.D.R. and that the designers would pick up straight from the manufacturers. Photos on display in the Berlin exhibition show the clothes against a backdrop of old staircases and rundown gray façades, making for a dark fairytale-like mood full of neo-Romantic pathos...
...Sven Enerbäck at the University of Göteborg in Sweden has shown, using the latest imaging technologies, that healthy adults retain a sizable amount of brown fat in the front and back of the neck. (That was a surprise, since in rodents, the depots tend to be along the back, around the shoulder blades.) Enerbäck and his team studied five patients and confirmed, using genetic analysis, that the cells around the neck were indeed brown...
...study. Harvard boasts numerous courses devoted to studying the world’s histories, and when it examines its own individual history, it is equally valuable as an academic effort, even if that story is a troubled one. A four-person research seminar taught this fall by history professor Sven Beckert revealed the unfortunate connections between slavery and prominent individuals in Harvard’s legacy. This investigation is a worthy endeavor to increase the awareness of the economic and personal ties to slavery at Harvard. Moreover, it is to the credit of professors and their students that historical surveys...