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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Night commuters” walk all night in order to avoid capture by and abduction into the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Both students and local residents alike carried signs along a six-mile route through Cambridge before convening in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room to swap strategies for making a difference and to hear from a representative of the African Union. Similar walks took place in 44 different cities, according to the walk’s organizers. “It was a great way to bring attention to what these children go through...

Author: By Noah A. Rosenblum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Walk for Ugandan Children | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

That’s why the board contacted Harvard in January 2003 to see if the University was interested in a land swap, acquiring the Charlesview plot in exchange for building a new complex elsewhere...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fate of Allston Apartments Remains in Flux | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...Bell both lived nearby in Brighton, Japanese drummer Chi Fukami "was a friend of someone in my work." Then came German drummer Silke Steidinger (since replaced by Kaori from Japan) and Londoner (Ninja) Ka, who sings, raps and leads the cheerleader chants. The members are multi-instrumentalists who seamlessly swap tools throughout the show. The band was tasked with bringing to life an eclectic mix of instruments and samples buried in the album tracks, including snippets Parton had taken from charity shop cassettes and old documentaries and borrowed string parts "because I didn't have access to an orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Systems Are Go! | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...long as an organ from a live donor. To help solve this problem, Segev and Gentry devised a way to improve kidney-paired donation, which involves matching a patient who has a willing but incompatible donor with a donor-patient pair who have the same dilemma. In a swap, the donor from the first pair gives a kidney to the patient in the second pair, and the donor in the second pair gives a kidney to the patient in the first pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calculating Change: The Kidney Connection: Math Makes a Match | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

Benefiting from a spate of National Institutes of Health grants, work in the cutting-edge field is moving quickly, as researchers swap ideas while competing to make potentially lucrative innovations first...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DNA Sequencing Becomes Cheaper | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

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