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...gasoline. Favorite childhood activity: Playing in the rain. Sexiest physical trait: My fingers, but my ankles are a close second. Best part about Harvard: The Eliot dining hall staff. Worst part about Harvard: Discovering that there is someone better than me at everything. Describe yourself in 3 words: No verbal filter. In 15 minutes you are: Practicing my cougar moves on unsuspecting Harvard freshmen. In 15 years you are: Practicing my cougar moves on unsuspecting Harvard freshmen...
...think that [increased interest in comics] probably has to do a little bit with the visual turn in our culture,” he says. “I think students are much more interested in consuming media that credit their capacity for what might be termed the visual-verbal imagination. So television, film, and the internet allow students to develop their visual-verbal imaginations. And, in the case of Japanese novels and graphic novels, students are also given an opportunity to give their visual-verbal imagination free expression.”Harvard professors who integrate comics into their coursework...
...powerful; LeBow slips into and out of all shades of emotion with ease. Even his battle of words and witty dialogue with Derrah’s Clov is pitch perfect, a delicate rhythm and timing established between the two that provides a bitterly comedic give-and-take. This verbal jousting keeps the one-act play moving at a swift pace. While LeBow is confined to his wheelchair, Derrah provides adept physical clowning, embodying Clov with distinct mannerisms (although LeBow, too, has his moments of physical comedy, wheelchair and all). Airaldi’s Nagg is amusing in an idiosyncratic...
Fire is one of the leading causes of death among young women in India - but you wouldn't know it by looking at government statistics. Or so says a study published in the British medical journal The Lancet. By examining census figures, death certificates from urban hospitals and "verbal autopsy" reports from rural communities, three researchers from Cambridge, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University estimated that more than 100,000 women were killed by fires in a single year - more than six times the number reported by police. The study also found that young women were three times as likely...
...most recent figures from the "Medicial Certification of Cause of Death" (MCCD), India's national death registry, are from 2001, and only cover "participating urban hospitals." For rural areas, death certificates are even harder to come by. Officials must rely on the "Survey of Causes of Death" (SCD), a "verbal autopsy survey of a sample of villages across rural India." One study conducted in a rural Tamil Nadu district tracked 39,000 deaths - 16% of which were suicides committed by women using fire...