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...according to director Gary Dotterman, the volunteer-run center—which will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary in January—is still open during limited hours on Thursday evenings, offering lectures, courses, book signings and film series. The center, which has a mailing list of 540 members, also operates the Bookmarx bookstore and hosts a weekly show on Cambridge cable television. Just this past weekend, an economist came to the center to talk about the status of Marxism in China...
...total U.S. government aid to Darfur totals about $250 million (one-thirtieth the amount in Iraq). There have been approximately 70,000 Darfurians killed by acts of genocide since April (70 times the number in Iraq—and this doesn’t even count the number of deaths from the forced starvation, which Prof. Alex de Waal of Harvard’s Global Equity Initiative estimates to be in the 100,000-350,000 range). Yesterday, 3,000 troops from the African Union arrived in Darfur (they are authorized to only to monitor, not intervene to stop...
High Point: Named thirtieth Treasurer of Harvard University; oversees Capital’s management of $500 million...
...celebrate Kitty’s thirtieth, the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations sponsored a conference last Saturday to find out exactly what makes Japanese cute culture—embodied by characters such as Pokemon, Sailor Moon and of course, Kitty—such an enduring phenomenon.Co-organizer Samuel H. Lipoff ’04 says that while “cuteness is everywhere in Japan,” it has hardly been recognized as a serious subject in academia. Lipoff says that, in the West, there is a great amount of cynicism and myth surrounding Hello...
...amounts of weed killer in rainwater may be partly to blame. A new report shows that male frogs exposed to altrazine--the best-selling agricultural herbicide--can develop multiple male sex organs or both male and female organs. Scientists think that even low concentrations of the weed killer--one-thirtieth the level allowed in drinking water--can cause the male hormone testosterone to morph into the female hormone estrogen. Does altrazine affect humans? No one really knows. But as scientists point out, people don't spend as much time in the water as frogs...