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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lyles and Durham plan to hire new managers for C'watre, then head back to their original research next year. By then, Lyles hopes, tougher regulations on ballast water may have passed, boosting demand for Tandem's technology. Meanwhile, it will be known for the ship that launched a thousand face creams...
...making the paper necessary to print one copy of The Crimson for every room on campus results in the production of 2116 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Even the use of 100 percent recycled newsprint only shaves the figure down to 1,042 metric tons, still nearly a thousand-fold difference. And those figures do not include the environmental impacts of shipping and printing. Of course, simplistic assumptions yield simplistic results. In the real world, some rooms on campus never remove their daily copy from their door, while other rooms regularly collect—and presumably...
...raven, Mortimer—who solves mysteries and incites mass upheaval in Arabel’s household while continually croaking, “Nevermore!”—resemble Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” but are about five thousand times better, thanks to their wry tone and clever literary allusions. —Mary A. Brazelton ’08 is the outgoing Arts Monday editor. She baked several pies to land her position...
...audience won’t have chairs as seats, but floor cushions, and the cast includes aerial dancers and contortionists. Originally written by famed Arabian writer Twafiq al-Hakim, “Shahrazad” picks up right where the famous “One Thousand and One Nights” leaves off, and attempts to uncover the obscurity behind Shahrazad, the mysterious woman, who captivates the king with her stories for over three years. “If we accept that Shahrazad had enough knowledge and enchantment in her to weave rapturous stories for three years non-stop...
...loan-based aid and the exclusion of home equity from aid calculations. The new policy will limit annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between $120,000 and $180,000 annually, reducing tuition payments for families in that bracket by several thousand dollars per term. The University also announced that it will increase financial support for graduate students in order to make Harvard more competitive with its peer institutions, a step that will no doubt increase the quality of undergraduate teaching fellows while also making a graduate degree more affordable...