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...Haiyan, 22, from Henan, a province in central China with an average per capita income of $1,100 per year. She first found her way here working on a barge that carries bricks up the river that flows past our house. Qiu has the build of an Olympic weight lifter, with thick, powerful legs, and she and other work-gang members would offload the bricks on a wide wooden plank attached to a rope that they would sling across their shoulders. The subcontractor who built our development estimates he used about 70,000 bricks at Emerald Riverside...
Hypertension - defined as having systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg or diastolic pressure 90 mmHg, or higher - is known to increase risk of stroke and heart attack. Risk factors like nighttime noise are perhaps less decisive than other changeable variables like weight, exercise and alcohol intake. But, in general, says Jarup, "I would say that the main point is to reduce your risk factors - the fewer the better...
...Since then, Lanre-Amos and Gawlik have been practically inseparable. Both are on the men’s heavy-weight crew team (Amos is the coxswain). Most nights, they double-bunk. They always try to spend “every spare second” together. This past summer, Lanre-Amos lived with Gawlik’s family in Frankfurt, Germany while working at a lab. Her trip included a two-week stint with his parents even before Gawlik arrived home...
...retain exclusive rights to her- or himself could do so by obtaining a waiver. Of course, those who cooperate with the system will also retain full rights to the publication of their work. By sharing those rights with Harvard, they sacrifice nothing; and they will have the collective weight of Harvard behind them if they resist a journal’s demand for exclusive rights. We have designed a legal memorandum called an author’s addendum to reinforce them in negotiations with commercial publishers. The implementation of the proposal would require an effort at consciousness-raising, but that...
...endurance,” Stanton said. “And not all of us are endurance athletes.” Fellow co-captain Molly Boyle arrived with the team at 2:30 pm, but had to wait until 11:15 to get her chance to compete in the weight throw. But all that aside, the women’s team mustered up an impressive cadre of individual performances. In the track events, junior Aishlinn O’Callaghan finished seventh in the 500 meter with a Harvard season-best time of 1:16.19. Freshman Kathryn Orchowski posted a time...