Start to Research Your Summer Plans for Korea! Talk it over with your family over the winter break.

The 2014 Harvard Summer School in Seoul, Korea Program online application is due: Thursday, January 30, 2014 .

Visit the Harvard Summer School Website: http://www.summer.harvard.edu/programs/study-abroad/seoul-korea  for all the details and the online application (up 12/4 or 12/5).

Dates for the Program are: Mon. June 23-...

Ten years ago, the average American soldier on foot patrol carried roughly 100 pounds of gear. Though officials realized then they had to lighten the load, a recent follow-up study has shown that it has nonetheless increased to an average of 106 pounds.

Injuries — mainly to tendons, ligaments, and muscles — have become a serious problem, and a primary reason why soldiers are evacuated, given light duty, or even discharged, according to Lt. Col. Joseph Hitt,...

Some members of our chapter traveled to the EWB South Central Regional Conference a few weeks ago. At the conference they met an amazing group of fellow EWB members and learned about their projects. Our group also had the opportunity to give a presentation on our project and what we have learned so far.

Despite world-class hospitals and an army of highly trained medical personnel, the local health establishment doesn’t have the excess “surge” capacity to handle a flu pandemic outbreak.

And Boston isn’t alone. A panel of experts on pandemics and public health said Wednesday that not only is such capacity lacking in Boston, it is in short supply around the world and would affect everything from providing beds for the sick to the ability to make and distribute vaccines.

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