Slowing Expansion, Harvard Suspends Work on Tower

New York TimesBOSTON – Harvard announced Thursday that it would indefinitely suspend construction on a high-tech science complex in the Allston neighborhood of Boston because of money problems.’The altered financial landscape of the university, and of the wider world, necessitates a shift away from rapid development in Allston,’ Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s president, wrote in a letter released… Read more

Go Go Hamsters pose potential health risk, says US watchdog

guardian.co.ukA £10 toy that is top of many children’s Christmas wish lists is at the centre of a health scare.The Mr Squiggle Go Go Hamster contains potentially dangerous levels of a toxic chemical which has been linked to cancer, according to a US safety watchdog.GoodGuide, a consumer testing research lab in San Francisco, claims the battery-powered furry animals have high levels of antimony… Read more