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  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    Bruce Willis to be roasted tonight

    This evening (Feb. 14) the toughest movie star in America will be roasted at the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Awards. Actor Bruce Willis, who recently garnered critical raves for his work on the film Sixth Sense (and whose new movie, Harts War, will be released tomorrow), will be teased and toasted by his…

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    This month in Harvard History

    Feb. 29, 1672 – President Charles Chauncy dies in office.

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    FAS dean to return to faculty

    Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as dean and to return to the faculty at the end of this academic year.

  • Science & Tech

    Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs grows rapidly

    In the first analysis of patterns of direct-to-consumer advertising before and after 1997 guidelines issued by the Food and Drug Administration, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard…

  • Science & Tech

    State of U.S. public health drinking water reliable

    “Over the last century, the U.S. has set the world standard for ensuring a reliable, relatively safe drinking water supply to the general public,” said Ronnie B. Levin, a research…

  • Science & Tech

    Physicians warn of nuclear terrorist threat

    In a new study, Lachlan Forrow, director of ethics support services at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. and his co-authors used…

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    Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean at Harvard, to Return to the Faculty

    Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as Dean and to return to the Faculty at the end of this academic year.

  • Science & Tech

    Physicians vs. the Internet

    Each day, about 7.5 million people in the United States use the Internet to get health information, while less than 3 million consult their doctors. Of the 110 million Americans…

  • Health

    Hormone leptin tied to fat breakdown in muscle

    Research has shown that leptin is an important hormone with a hand in many metabolic processes. It undoubtedly has widespread effects that may influence diabetes as well as obesity. Recent…

  • Health

    Researchers eye earliest triggers of age-related macular degeneration

    Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness for Americans over 60 years of age. It affects more than 14 million people. But how it attacks the macula, the…

  • Science & Tech

    Genetic computation tells man from microbe

    By one estimate (based on bacteria counts in the colon or stool samples), microbes that call our bodies home outnumber human cells 10 to 1. Most of the bacteria, viruses,…

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    Dusty trails may reveal new planets

    Great blobs of dust may signal the presence of a planet orbiting Vega, the brightest star in the summer sky.

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    Threshers, goblins, and great whites

    The race was on. With the Harvard Museum of Natural Historys (HMNH) giant Kronosaurus skeleton as a backdrop, three groups of kindergartners and first-graders began assembling their puzzles, slapping pieces onto the blue-gray carpet until they revealed: A shark, a shark, and another shark.

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    Psychoanalysis symposium at Radcliffe

    Race and the aesthetics of aversion, subjectivity and its discontents, and the impact of Sept. 11 on psychoanalysis are among the topics to be discussed at a one-day symposium sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Why Psychoanalysis? A Symposium on the Value of Psychoanalysis for Contemporary Life will be held on Friday, Feb.…

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    Swift candid, confident in KSG address

    The Sept. 11 tragedies irretrievably changed the nature of public service and made it more important than ever that people take an active interest in their communities and in the public servants that make them work, Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift told a Kennedy School audience Tuesday (Feb. 5).

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    Leo P. Krall, a founder of Joslin Diabetes Center, dies at 87

    Leo P. Krall, M.D., an international leader in the field of diabetes for half a century and one of the original founders of Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, died Jan. 30, at the age of 87.

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    HUPD movin’ on up to Mass. Avenue

    Renovations at the Harvard University Police Departments former 29 Garden St. headquarters has forced a move to new offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., but police officials say their hope is that the Harvard community will barely notice the change.

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    Win-win

    More than 50 girls and young women from grade schools throughout Greater Boston packed the pools and jammed the courts of the Malkin Athletic Center this past Saturday (Feb. 2) for Harvards ninth annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) event. Between the sounds of splashed water, whacked volleyballs, and the gymnasium echo…

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    Allston armed robbery suspects sought

    On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at approximately 8:30 p.m., a graduate school student was the victim of an armed robbery on Western Avenue near the intersection of North Harvard in front of Charlesview Apartments. The suspects, described below, confronted the victim after exiting a silver motor vehicle. One of the suspects displayed a silver handgun and…

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    Sarah Jessica Parker sings for her Pudding as Woman of the Year

    Sarah Jessica Parker charmed Harvard as she collected the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year award

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    Quinn wins Mitchell

    Davin Quinn, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School who loves to write, is going to Belfast next year as the recipient of a George J. Mitchell scholarship for graduate study in Northern Ireland.

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    Clark garners Humboldt Research Award

    William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the Kennedy School of Government, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award 2002. As part of his award, Clark will undertake a series of stays at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany beginning this July.

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    Online tutoring connects

    Mackie Dougherty 03 wants to help time-crunched Harvard students do good deeds … in their pajamas.

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    Parker’s Pudding parade today

    Woman of the Year festivities, featuring the fabulous Sarah Jessica Parker, will begin today at 2 p.m. when the starlet will lead a parade through Harvard Square. Following the parade, the president of the theatricals and the vice president of the cast will roast Parker and present her with her Pudding Pot at 2:20 p.m.…

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    Sounds that soothe

    The notes of Ralph Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending rolled over the audience, slow and melodious, almost haunting. But Daniel Chens violin performance wasnt in a classical concert hall, it was in the one of the linoleum-floored common areas of Youville Hospital.

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    Music library touts diversity

    In a windowless room in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, David Ackerman sits amid an array of electronic paraphernalia that looks as if it might have been lifted from the bridge of a Klingon starship. The soundproof walls undulate with puckers of dark gray sponge. Intently tracking a sine curve on the computer screen…

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    Newsmakers

    Foster honored for conservation efforts Charles Foster, a fellow with the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Kennedy School of Government, will receive a conservation citation from Interior Secretary…

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    Religion scholar Pagels to deliver Noble Lectures

    Author and religious scholar Elaine Pagels will give the 2002 William Belden Noble Lectures in the Memorial Church on Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 11, 12, and 13 at 8 p.m. Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Pagels is the author of The Origin of Satan, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, and The Gnostic Gospels,…

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    Harris goes ‘Beyond Ballots’ at KSG

    At the Kennedy School of Government Monday night (Feb. 4), Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris dodged protestors, deflected attacks, and headed off dimpled chad and makeup jokes to stick to her carefully worded guns.