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...Everything was an obstacle. We started from an idea and just kept pushing,” Delle says. “We’d have to wake up at 2 a.m. to call Ghana...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bringing Clean Water to All | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...suggest that bedtime behaviors that soothe infants don't always benefit older children. "Giving food or drink to the child may be an appropriate answer when he awakes at night during the first months of life," Simard says, "However, most often, children at 29 to 41 months do not wake up because they are hungry." According to Simard's study, children whose parents fed them when they woke up in the middle of the night at age three were more likely to have nightmares and short sleep times at age four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Get Baby to Sleep | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...like a wake in the dugout after that game,” Walsh said. “We felt like we had our chances to win that one. Losing really stung...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Split Gives Harvard First Ivy Win | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...Chinese government would agree that it's shameful, but not in where the blame lies. Though China has remained fairly tight-lipped in the wake of the London and Paris relay fiascos, it earlier denounced efforts by Menard and fellow activists on March 25 to disrupt the lighting of the torch in Greece in March. At that time, the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, said that "any act to disrupt the Olympic torch relay is shameful and unpopular." He also warned "that competent authorities in countries through which the torch relay will pass have the obligation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympic Torch's Tortured Trip | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...suppression of unrest in Tibet last month. Images of that violence prepared the ground for groups like Reporters Without Frontiers, which have called on the French government to use the Beijing Games as a lever to pressure China to increase civil liberties and press freedom. It was in the wake of that spreading disquiet in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western leader to suggest he might consider a boycott of the opening ceremonies to protest China's stance on human rights and Tibet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympic Torch's Tortured Trip | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

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