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...Natalie I. Sherman contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Abby D. Phillip can be reached at adphill@fas.harvard.edu. FOR MORE INFONew Events on Tap at Pub (Sept. 12, 2007): In its second semester of operation, Harvard’s undergraduate pub is looking to expand its reach with extended operating hours and a revised calendar of events...
...high-tech answer to the problem came two years ago when West Virginia University studied the health effects of an exergaming system called Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)--interactive games that instruct kids to use their feet to tap buttons on a sensor mat. After a pilot program found the games were beneficial, the state vowed to install consoles in all its public schools by next year. (It didn't hurt the study's credibility that it was funded in part by an insurance company, not by the gamemaker.) Since then, other districts have climbed aboard, helped by video-game makers...
...decision, of course, is ever the result of one pure motive. Johnson, his biographer Robert Caro argues, always had reservoirs of genuine compassion that his ambition finally allowed him to tap. John Quincy Adams became a principled scourge only after his ambition to be elected President had been gratified (and his ambition to be re-elected denied). Concrete cracks for many reasons. The sound you hear is politics--and human nature--at work...
...Putting a Cap on Bottle Waste Re Bryan Walsh's "Back to the Tap" [Aug. 20]: After living more than 30 years in countries in which drinking tap water was a known risk, I was amazed to come home and find everyone buying water. First, I thought they bought the plastic bottles and filled them from the tap. But no, they bought them, water and all, at the supermarket, lugged them home and refrigerated them. And when they had emptied the bottles, they disposed of them in the trash. How about the water I drank overseas? It had been carried...
Wine sold in the same type of plastic bottles that Aquafina uses to hold tap water is about to hit U.S. consumers, thanks to Bob Peter, a man who buys a lot of wine. Not a lot of wine like your alcoholic uncle buys a lot of wine or even like your local wine store buys a lot of wine. As CEO of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Peter buys wine for 12.7 million Canadians, since all the wine in that province has to be sold in government-run stores. So when he merely suggested in 2005 that wine...