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...Mass. Hall, my stomach in my throat and my hands somewhat fidgety as I nervously awaited his arrival. The next thing I knew, I was trailing the most powerful man at the University, who seemed 10 feet tall, to go out to lunch.But Larry broke the thick ice with ease. Instead of interrogating me about my academic credentials, as I had expected he would, we spent the first 15 minutes chatting about our families. He told me about his daughters and son, whom he had promised the biggest singles at Harvard if they came here...
...started eating meat more than 2 million years ago. In the 1960s, however, researchers began to notice that patients who had elevated blood levels of cholesterol--a fatty substance found in meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products--also tended to suffer from heart disease. Cholesterol by-products would form thick, tough deposits, called plaques, on the inner walls of arteries, stiffening them and then starving the heart of blood and creating choke points where a clot could stop the flow entirely...
Given the remorselessness of its wrecking crews, Beijing should not, by rights, be blessed with so enduring a structure as the Icehouse. But then the Icehouse is no ordinary structure. With 1.2-m-thick walls and access through a 20-m-long tunnel, it's more of a bunker - shouldering wars and revolutions, building booms and bulldozers...
...both his arms. The 6’7 senior, once acclaimed for his unique ambidexterity on the mound, broke out in two new ways this year: first, on the hill, going 4-0 as a weekend starter for head coach Joe Walsh; and second, becoming a regular in the thick of the Harvard lineup at designated hitter, posting an eye-opening .288 average. Prior to this season, Brunnig had nothing more than one at-bat in college, as a freshman. But in 2006, one of the highlights of the senior’s renaissance came during the division-clinching...
...changes. I am a Harvard student. Moving past tour groups ogling outside of Widener, I sometimes can’t help but step out of my student role for just a minute and think about things from the outside. It’s tough to remember, in the thick of classes and activities and awkward social encounters, the esteem with which so many people hold our school...