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...Crimson’s stellar all-around performance was made even more impressive by difficult conditions, as the course’s proximity to the sea resulted in unsteady water that hindered smooth rowing...
...Last Monday was not one of those times for the Harvard women’s water polo team (11-16, 4-6 CPWA North...
...Varsity Eight inched ahead after the first 10 strokes and had built a six seat lead after the first 500 meters. By the final 400 meters, the race was all but over, as Radcliffe was able to accelerate after the midway point to an open-water lead that the varsity eight would not relinquish.“We got off to a good start,” Hollowell said. “By somewhere around 750, we were up by a couple of feet, but we were pretty even off the start. We really just moved in the second...
...undergraduates, Harvard students have a lot of clothes to wash. If each student does laundry once a week—and this is assuming only one load of laundry—that’s over 180,000 loads per academic year. Not only is that a lot of water, it’s also a lot of laundry detergent—over 280,000 ounces of liquid detergent, to be precise, given that the detergent of choice is doubly concentrated. Unfortunately, most of this laundry detergent, due to its chemical content, is extremely harmful for our beloved earth...
...this happens at a time when Harare cannot supply safe water to its citizens. Had it not been for international relief organizations, many fear, the death toll from the cholera outbreak would have been much higher, perhaps into the tens of thousands. Cholera-related deaths per day have since gone down, but Oxfam's chief executive, Barbara Stocking, believes the crisis has not ended. Said Stocking during a recent visit to Zimbabwe: "We have to expect a cholera epidemic and outbreak to happen again at the end of this year, given that the water and sewage system is not working...