Year: 2004

  • Nation & World

    Winter sport

    The seasonal extreme sport known as holiday shopping is underway in a twilit Harvard Square.

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    Gore, Summers, McElroy to speak on climate change

    Last month, a scientific report commissioned by the eight Arctic nations, including the United States, concluded that the Arctic is experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth. Changes in arctic climate will cause sea levels to rise and drive many species toward extinction, including polar bears. You have organisms that…

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    The Big Picture

    Sometimes a harp is more than a harp.

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    Science Task Force work progresses through fall

    Harvards Task Force on Science and Technology, which last spring outlined a future for science at the University characterized by innovative, interdisciplinary initiatives, is nearing the conclusion of its work that will bring these broader ideas into clearer focus.

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    President holds office hours today

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Dec. 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    Creativity express

    A capacity crowd of 800 parents, teachers, and children poured into the Fogg Art Museum on Dec. 4 to attend the opening exhibition of student artwork and writing inspired by the books and illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg (above), author of The Polar Express and many other magical books. Teachers and students from the 11…

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    This month in Harvard history

    Dec. 7, 1940 – Exactly one year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Harvard Alumni Association holds a special daylong symposium in Cambridge on Harvard and national defense.…

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    Nan Keohane to join Harvard Corporation

    Nannerl Overholser Keohane, past president of both Duke University and Wellesley College, will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced Sunday (Dec. 5).

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    A region of problems, promise

    While the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) marked its 10th anniversary with a celebration this weekend, the mood at a symposium Saturday morning (Dec. 4) was not all celebratory. With the events of Sept. 11, 2001, turning the worlds gaze away from the region, the panel of Latin American political and economic…

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    Warming called a global ‘experiment’

    Climate scientist Daniel Schrag says that human-caused climate change is inevitable, though scientists don’t know exactly how severe or even exactly what its effects will be. Schrag said the public…

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    Race, class still matter

    Even as she was marching proudly through academia, earning a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale and a fellowship and ultimately assistant professorship at Harvard, Vivian Shuh Ming Louie saw family…

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    Discovering how we appreciate a loss

    A committee of psychiatrists, surgeons, ethicists, and others decided that the only course left for five people with otherwise untreatable mental disorders was to cut out a certain area of…

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    Accumulated low-level lead exposure can lead to cataract development in men

    According to lead author Debra A. Schaumberg, Sc.D., O.D., M.P.H. of BWH, “This research suggests that reduction of lead exposure throughout a man’s lifetime should help reduce his chances of…

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    Sudden death among military personnel often caused by exercise and an identifiable cardiac abnormality

    According to the study’s lead author BWH’s Robert E. Eckart, D.O., they had expected that most of the sudden deaths would stem from structural heart abnormalities, but that in actuality,…

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    Portraits of dissent on view at Davis Center

    Norton Dodge is an economist, a Harvard alumnus, and a savior of smuggled Soviet art. Smuggler is not usually a moniker that one would choose, but for Norton Dodge it is a badge of honor. Concerned with the plight of artists living under Soviet rule, many of whom found their work prohibited by the regime,…

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    Grandkids can make you sick

    A study by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School shows that women who care for grandchildren more than nine hours a week have a…

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    Method automates capture of cell image data

    A new type of drug profiling will be useful in identifying the biological targets of experimental compounds and predicting drug toxicity. “This work brings microscopy into the ‘omics’ era,” said…

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    Global tintinnabulation

    Bells were always special acoustic signals – they announced religious events, fire, periods of mourning, celebrations, explains Hans Tutschku, associate professor of music and director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC). For me, bells are symbols for the specific sound of a place and its culture.

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    John T. Edsall

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences November 16, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    Enrique Anderson-Imbert

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences October 19, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    $30 million endowment offers new approach

    When Albert J. Weatherhead III 50 and Celia Weatherhead decided to give $30 million to create The Weatherhead Endowment for Collaborative Science and Technology, the couple agreed that the choice offered a unique opportunity to influence the future.

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    Nominations sought for Scholars at Risk fellows

    Each year, the Harvard Scholars at Risk committee provides a fellowship for at least one persecuted scholar to come to Cambridge for up to one year. The risk of persecution may be related to the scholars work, but it may also be a consequence of his or her ethnicity, religion, or political opinions. An interdisciplinary…

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 29. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    Erratum

    The article Right of eminent domain challenged by Ken Gewertz (Nov. 18) incorrectly stated that Pfizer Inc. wants to expand into the Fort Trumbull, Conn., neighborhood that is the subject of an eminent domain dispute currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court (Kelo v. City of New London). Pfizer states that it has no…

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  • Nation & World

    The Constitution judged by Breyer

    Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Stephen Breyer delivered this years Tanner Lectures on Human Values, focusing on those aspects of the Constitution that promote an active, participatory form of liberty rather than simply safeguarding the rights of individuals. Says Breyer, The Constitution is about creating institutions in which people will participate democratically to create policy,…

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    Harvard Foundation awards 126 grants

    A lecture and reception honoring the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a Scandinavian Marten Goose dinner, a professional womens panel called Road to Success, the Latino Welcome Day program, the Japan Societys Winter Mochi – these are just a handful of the projects funded by the Harvard Foundation in the fall 2004 semester. In all,…

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    Harvard 10-0

    In a season marked by individual record-breaking performances, the Harvard football team put forth the ultimate team effort in the 121st edition of The Game on Nov. 20, burying visiting Yale, 35-3. The pretty win capped the Crimsons flawless 10-0 season (7-0 Ivy) to hand the program its 11th league championship. This years gridiron group…

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    Mansfield receives NEH award

    Harvey Mansfield, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, was at the White House Nov. 17 to receive a National Endowment for the Humanities Award from President Bush.

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    Oral saline spray makes a splash

    Some individuals exhale many more pathogen-laden droplets than others in the course of ordinary breathing, scientists have found, but oral administration of a safe saline spray every six hours might slash exhalation of germs in this group by an average of 72 percent.

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