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...Harvard’s athletic policy assumes that a university can have it all—competitive athletics and strong academics. However, given the high-pressure environments that both worlds have become, balancing the two can take a toll on student-athletes...
...injuries have already taken their toll, as evidenced by the Crimson’s disappointing loss to league rival Rutgers-Newark in three sets last Friday. The defeat not only halted Harvard’s run of four straight wins, but also dropped the team into a tie with the Scarlet Pioneers for the division title...
...pirates, largely from lawless coastal Somali towns, have basically turned the heavily traveled route through the Gulf of Aden into a toll road that shippers' insurance firms have been willing to pay for (up to $3 million for a single vessel). About 20,000 merchant ships traverse the waterway each year; there have already been 74 attacks and 15 hijackings in 2009, compared with 111 attacks last year. The pirates generally want cash, not trouble. They've treated their hostages well, and violence has been rare. All of that changed, of course, last week when a quartet of Somalis seized...
...Obviously there is unconscious gender bias in this society, so of course I’m affected by that.”But while vice president, she says her division’s budget and staff were slashed amid multiple reorganizations of the Labs, taking a significant toll on physical sciences research there.Bishop credits Murray with working tirelessly to rebuild Bell’s physical sciences division.“She is extremely effective both as a scientist but also as a scientific leader,” says Bishop. “The folks at Harvard are lucky...
Attention, however, is still focused on the human toll. As the deaths climbed to at least 260, hope began to dwindle on Tuesday evening of finding additional survivors under the rubble. The previous night, just past 2 a.m., a university student identified as Marta was pulled alive from her collapsed dormitory after 23 hours, her life saved only because a fallen ceiling support had wedged across her bed in a position that protected her from all the other debris that came down. (See pictures of the earthquake...