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Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 is not afraid to dart across incoming traffic. He bounds down stairs full of energy after door-knocking for his campaign. He can stay relaxed even during a frantic campaign season. And he seemingly never walks into a room at Harvard without greeting an old acquaintance.The junior from Harrisburg, Pa. has the experience—he has served in leadership positions on the UC and the College Events Board, and has been continually involved in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and the Crimson Key Society...
...Radar. The Federal Aviation Administration green-lighted a new air-traffic control system that will track planes by satellite, rather than radar. This should help establish the most direct flight paths and re-route airplanes more efficiently around bad weather, reducing accidents and delays. The new system will roll out in 2010, with complete nationwide coverage...
Mobs are not mystical, it turns out. "All types of crowds, even relatively small gatherings, can quickly become dangerous if not carefully managed," John Fruin, a traffic engineer specializing in crowd safety, wrote in a recent National Fire Protection Association handbook...
...Untimeliness of Youth” that preserves its popularity. “It is the brevity and compression of their story, the impressionistic sense that their lives, and not only the play that bears their names, constitute a ‘two-hours’ traffic,’ that has made this tragedy about untimely love so poignant, so ‘modern,’ and so timely.” It is this factor—now associated with our concept of “youth culture”—that Garber emphasizes, pointing...
...favors and imperfect, improvised, less-than-legal solutions through which most things in India still get done. Taken together, these two cultural touchstones are the biggest reasons why India has not yet found the political will to address its deepest problems. "Chalta hai," Indians say about everything from traffic to political corruption to substandard education - that this is the best that a poor country of 1 billion people can do. And when any of those problems affect you, with a well-placed favor and a willingness to look the other way, there's always a solution...