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...politics, but more as an observer,” Merkle says. At Harvard, she found her democratic outlet at the IOP during her freshman year, making connections that would eventually give her the opportunity to spend her summers interning for the Patrick campaign. But watching Patrick go from virtual unknown to hometown hero doesn’t have Merkle preparing herself for a career in politics just yet. “I’m worried that I’ve been spoiled by my experience with Patrick,” Merkle says. “If I continued working...
...protect the thousands of farm workers who suffer severe illnesses from having to spray the toxins. At current levels of pesticide residue, none of us will be suing Harvard University Dining Services for feeding us conventionally grown tomatoes at the salad bar. But long-term consequences are largely unknown and a cause for concern because of time lags between exposure and a disease’s development. For example, DDT was once a widely used insecticide, then certified as “harmless,” but has now been linked to an increased likelihood of premature birth and cancer...
...just such a paper trail that enabled Marilyn Jo Drake, the auditor in Iowa's Pottawattamie County, to suss out an anomaly in a county-recorder race she was monitoring in June. She noticed that a 20-year incumbent was being beaten 10 to 1 by an unknown newcomer. Sensing a glitch, Drake cross-checked the electronic results against the totals on the paper vote and discovered the veteran was actually well ahead. The problem, it turned out, was the way the candidates' names had been ordered and coded into the access cards that activated the machines, which were made...
...excitement over the Wollemi started in 1994 when a hiker named David Noble stumbled upon the previously unknown tree while exploring Wollemi National Park, a wilderness area that covers more than a million acres outside Sydney. Experts at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens pronounced the finding a new genus and decided to keep the trees' location secret, since poachers would value its scarcity and thus commercial value...
...Barack Obama for President in 2008” Facebook group already has over 9,000 members. All of this is pretty remarkable, considering that the man hasn’t even served two full years in the Senate and was a virtual unknown before he gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention...