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...summer of 2008. Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck said that the agreement, which marks the conclusion of negotiations that began last September, was clear-cut. “Eighteen bells for eighteen bells, that’s it,” she said. In addition to the bell swap, Eck said, the agreement includes a future endowment to support cultural exchange and provide the musical training necessary to learn how to ring the new bells. Lowell House will be closed off to residents during the summer of 2008 in order to facilitate installation of the new bells, according...
Finally, a long-term goal of REP is to encourage life-long sustainable habits in Harvard students. A large-scale light-bulb swap is currently underway to have students switch from traditional bulbs to compact fluorescent lights...
...almost entirely in clubs and the offices of nifty little literary magazines. Most of its characters are coke addicts. It’s playing in the Adams Pool House Theatre, which used to be an actual swimming pool where Harvard’s artsy types would skinny dip and swap STDs...
...California is not alone. The Australian government announced this week that it also plans to ban the sale of most incandescent bulbs by 2012. Cuba and Venezuela are distributing millions of free CFLs (with Fidel Castro sending out youth brigades to actually swap the new bulbs for the old). Even Wal-Mart is trying to ride the CFL wave, having recently committed to selling 100 million CFLs this year...
...nation's fledgling official bourses in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are surging, Trung and many other local punters prefer to invest where the action is even headier: he typically trades in an unsanctioned market composed of websites and Internet chat rooms frequented by thousands of investors who swap unlisted shares of partially privatized Vietnamese companies. Participants call this the over-the-counter (OTC) market, a reference to exchanges abroad that provide an arena for trading small stocks. But unlike OTC bourses elsewhere, Vietnam's market has no licensed brokers, virtually no regulatory oversight, and trades often culminate with...