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...Harvard Real Estate Services, did not return repeated requests for comment. Other employees of the office declined to comment. Although the lease is supposed to be reviewed next year, Ittelson said that Harvard has not approached him for his input. “I think Harvard throws its weight around like an elephant and squashes things it doesn’t mean to,” Ittelson said. “They have to decide whether they want to take over the Square with all Harvard space or throw out small businesses.” But Timothy Locke, the director...
...Within hours, the turtle was dead, smothered under the weight of its adornment and Felicity had not yet bothered to remove the corpse from her dressing table. She thought it pretty...
...study is one of the first to track patterns of discrimination based on weight. It's worth noting, however, that the survey relied on people's own perception of discrimination - the authors did not require the subjects to document bias in any way. In addition, the authors found that rates of discrimination by age and gender also increased in the same time period, suggesting that several forms of bias - or perhaps sensitivity to perceived bias - is on the rise overall, not just against the overweight. Nevertheless, the study did track the same population over time, and Andreyeva says that...
...push. So Gonen decided to appeal to their pocketbooks. Here's how it works: every family on a garbage route is issued a special container with a computer chip. When garbage trucks pick up the recycling, they weigh the container and record how much each family is recycling by weight. The more you recycle, the more RecycleBank points you earn, which can be redeemed for offers at merchants like CVS/pharmacy. It's that easy. Since RecycleBank launched in Philadelphia in 2006, its formula has led to unqualified success everywhere it has gone - and it now operates through much...
...marriage in India and Kaushik to Thailand for a brief vacation en route to his new job in Hong Kong. While the longer format of the stories in “Unaccustomed Earth” allows Lahiri to more thoroughly investigate her themes, occasionally her structure collapses underneath the weight of the accumulated detail. Fortunately, such lapses do not detract from the work’s overall achievement. It remains a beautifully crafted collection that is able to express the nearly inexpressible: our shared worries about identity, belonging, and life itself. Hema, gazing at a group of villagers...