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  • Campus & Community

    KSG hosts city leaders in lively session

    Cambridge officials huddled with Kennedy School faculty Thursday (Jan. 10) to discuss the challenges facing local government in todays trying economic and social times.

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    HAA’s 2002 Overseer candidates:

    Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) candidates for the 2002 election to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be announced…

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    Juke joint jumpin’

    During a reading period study break, Caitlin Riley 04 puts in a request for Bob Marley just after someone else had requested 45 minutes of Tupac Shakur songs on the free jukebox inside Loker Commons.

  • Campus & Community

    Rough and tumble

    After matching archrival Yale goal for goal throughout two periods last Saturday night (Jan. 12) at the Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard mens hockey team dominated the final stanza, scoring two consecutive tallies to earn a 4-3 victory. The game had the look and feel of a wild playoff battle, complete with a second-period melee.

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    Senior 48 selected by Phi Beta Kappa

    The following students were selected as the Senior 48 by the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College. The students, listed below with their Houses and concentrations, were elected to Alpha Iota this past November.

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    ‘Sackler Saturdays’ series back at HUAM

    Following the success of the inaugural Sackler Saturdays series last fall, the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will again sponsor the program for families with children ages 6 to 11. The program, which is free and open to the public, aims to foster the appreciation of artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands.

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    Radcliffe sends arts seminars to Lesley

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is sending its Radcliffe Seminars in Creative Arts to Lesley University so the institute can focus on its new, postmerger mission.

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    Newsmakers

    Halperin selected as Eisenhower Fellow

  • Campus & Community

    Professor Wiley’s death ruled accidental

    On Jan. 14, 2002, the Shelby County Medical Examiners Office issued a report indicating that an accidental fall from a bridge into the Mississippi River was the probable cause of death for Professor Don C. Wiley. Wiley was first reported missing by the Memphis, Tenn., police on Nov. 16. His body was recovered from the…

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    Segal memorial service is set

    A memorial service for Charles Segal, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, will be held on Friday, March 1, at 3 p.m., at the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception at the Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., from 4 to 6 p.m.

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    President holds office hours

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Feb. 1, 2002 March 5, 2002…

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 12. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    HDNet to carry Ivy basketball

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Jan. 11, 1924 – Gale-force winds rip off the new copper roof of the library at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (Milton, Mass.), depositing heavy sheets up to 30 feet away.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Aging out’ can be a life crisis for foster kids

    Former foster children whove aged out of the child welfare system are an all-but forgotten population with few services and fewer statistics to show researchers how theyre doing, according to speakers at an all-day Kennedy School forum on their plight Friday (Jan. 11).

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    Scientists get straight skinny on fat cells

    The last link in the chain from food to fat has been found. Deep in human cells sits the master regulator of fat cells, a gene with the awkward name PPAR-gamma. When activated, this gene and the protein it produces drive the formation of fat cells that are part of the epidemic of obesity now…

  • Science & Tech

    New, far-out planet is discovered

    A planet discovered in the constellation Sagittarius is so distant that light takes 5,000 years to travel from there to here at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. Called…

  • Health

    Minimally invasive surgical procedure offers limited benefits for colon cancer patients

    A national clinical trial compared the effects of standard colon cancer surgery with a newer, minimally invasive procedure for removing tumors called laparoscopic surgery. Researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and…

  • Science & Tech

    Human genome sequence yields new tool for microbe-hunting

    Microbiologists have traditionally identified pathogens (disease-causing organisms) by growing them in a laboratory dish from a sample of infected tissue. But not all pathogens can be cultured this way. Molecular…

  • Health

    Lack of protein ApoE in brain may raise Alzheimer’s risk

    Brain cells are protected from possible contamination by substances in circulating blood by what is known as “the blood-brain barrier.” Researchers have many questions about precisely how this protective mechanism…

  • Health

    Biostatisticians crunch data vital to AIDS research, genetics

    Broadly defined, statistical genetics is the development of methods to analyze DNA. In recent years, the term has been more specifically applied to gene mapping, or the search for locations…

  • Health

    Discovery could aid in therapeutic cloning, clamping down on cancer

    “Our focus is to understand the very first few steps that drive a cell to become an intestinal cell instead of a muscle cell,” says Yang Shi, Harvard Medical School…

  • Health

    Link found between body rhythms and circadian clock, light

    The brain’s circadian clock is a tiny cluster of neurons behind the eyes. This cluster of cells sends out signals that control the body’s daily rhythms. New research from Harvard…

  • Science & Tech

    Tuning the system: Program buffers health care collisions

    The Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program at the Harvard School of Public Health, led by Leonard Marcus, trains health care professionals to minimize the conflicts that inevitably arise.…

  • Campus & Community

    Beloved guide to students, Young, dies at 68

    William Clinton Burriss Young ’55, formerly associate dean of freshmen in Harvard College, died in Cambridge on Jan. 8 after a long illness. He was 68 years old. For more…

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    Lord of the Rings star Lampooned

    Elijah Wood, the young actor currently starring as Frodo in the blockbuster film “The Lord of the Rings,” journeyed from Middle Earth to Harvard Yard last Saturday and Sunday (Jan.…

  • Campus & Community

    Winter drama: hawks in Harvard Yard

    Red-tailed hawks, Harvard Yard residents for several years, are alert and watchful now. Recently, they treated the sharp-eyed to a view of natureÕs spectacle that might have been hidden by the leaves of summer or fall.

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    Harvard Gazette photo feature: Don’t let go!

    Eric Price ’05 and Emily Wilcox ’03, members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, practice their choreography at the MAC.

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    January is National Mentoring Month

    January 2002 marks the launch of National Mentoring Month, a public service campaign created and spearheaded by the Harvard Mentoring Project (HMP) in collaboration with AOL Time Warner, the ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox television networks, the National Mentoring Partnership, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and other nonprofit groups.

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    The beauty of numbers

    After three hours of mathematics one recent Saturday morning, 25 Boston middle school teachers paused briefly for lunch, after which they began their fourth hour of class totally engaged with…