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...Campus Life Committee, a committee of the Undergraduate Council, as too costly and not well-attended by students at Harvard College. The main focus of the article concerned Springfest, the fair held in the Mac Quad last weekend and the choice to bring God Street Wine, a relatively unknown band to Springfest at the cost of $7,500. As the co-chair of the Campus Life Committee, I feel the need to answer a number of objections of this article...
...agencies also accused his troops of participating in the slaughter that took place two weeks ago at Hutu camps where 80,000 refugees were huddled in rebel-held territory. More than 1 million Hutu fled into Zaire from Rwanda in 1994 after genocidal tribal warfare there, and an unknown number have been running ever farther west to escape Kabila's advancing Tutsi-led fighters. In recent weeks they have become the hapless victims of many attackers: Mobutu's retreating troops; Kabila's rebels; local Zaireans resentful of the aid the refugees were receiving; and the death-dealing ravages of malnutrition...
...cells to pump out more of the chemical. Cocaine keeps dopamine levels high by inhibiting the activity of a transporter molecule that would ordinarily ferry dopamine back into the cells that produce it. Nicotine, heroin and alcohol trigger a complex chemical cascade that raises dopamine levels. And a still unknown chemical in cigarette smoke, a group led by Brookhaven chemist Joanna Fowler reported last year, may extend the activity of dopamine by blocking a mopping-up enzyme, called MAO B, that would otherwise destroy...
...supposed to be giving--a party to celebrate the occasion. The first guests, Ken Gorman (Jed Silverstein '97) and wife Chris (Abigail H. Gray '99), arrive just in time to hear the sound of a gunshot. Upon rushing up to the bedroom, they discover that Charlie, for motives unknown, has shot himself in the ear. Myra is nowhere to be seen...
...There are no new unknown islands to be discovered nowadays: we know every centimeter of the earth from satellites, but [proteins] are the new islands to be discovered," he said. "That is one point that is a great draw for me personally...