Year: 2003

  • Nation & World

    Planetary survivor strategy: Outeat, outweigh, outlast!

    Astronomers Myron Lecar and Dimitar Sasselov have found that planet formation is a contest, where a growing planet must fight for survival lest it be swallowed by the star that…

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    New study identifies inhibitor of anthrax toxin

    Findings by a research team could eventually lead to the development of a protease inhibitor drug, which in combination with antibiotics could be used to treat anthrax cases later in…

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    Many Americans at high risk from flu not vaccinated

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highly recommends the flu vaccine for certain high-risk groups including people with chronic illnesses, children between the ages of six and 23 months,…

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    Diminishing returns

    Election Night is one of the increasingly rare moments when large numbers of Americans gather in front of their television sets to hear about politics. Although a comparison of the…

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    In brief

    Band names Holmes Scholarship recipients The Harvard University Band has awarded its annual Malcolm H. Holmes Scholarship to freshmen Keneshia Washington and Kenton Hetrick. Given annually to two dedicated new…

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    Bridge Program seeks volunteers to tutor adult learners

    The Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – is seeking volunteers who can commit two hours per week to tutor adult learners in language, literacy, numeracy, and computers skills. While some volunteers are needed immediately, the program is also asking people who may be…

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    A choir of one’s own

    Things happen to Edward Elwyn Jones in the nick of time. Consider. In 1998, he was in his final year at Cambridge University, when he was invited to Harvards Memorial Church, first as Organ Scholar, and then to stay on for an additional year as assistant organist to University Organist and Choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville.…

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    Lowell House bells re-examined

    On Dec. 4-8, 2003, representatives of Harvard University and members of a Russian delegation headed by the Father Superior of the Moscow St. Daniel Monastery met to discuss the future of the bells from the monastery that have hung in the Lowell House bell tower at Harvard University since 1930 when they were sold by…

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    Harvard launches new summer program

    Harvard University announced today (Dec. 11) that it is launching a new summer program for academically talented high school students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Students will come to Harvard from public and parochial schools in Boston and Cambridge to participate in an intensive summer program focused on academic and personal development. Each student will participate…

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    Tracy and the Plastics entertain, provoke

    During a brief lull in Tracy and the Plastics set this past Monday evening (Dec. 6) at the Cabot House Underground Theatre, Tracy (aka, Wynne Greenwood) – mastermind and front-woman of the Olympia, Wash.-based art-punk trio – invited the crowd of nearly 75 people to Look at each other for a second. Greenwoods suggestion to…

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    Remarks of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

    Remarks of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at Harvard University.

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    Diplomacy of Lewis and Clark stressed in exhibit

    In 1803, when Americans spoke about going west, they meant Ohio, Kentucky, or Tennessee. The phrase manifest destiny – the God-given right of Americans to spread over the continent – wouldnt be coined for another four decades. America didnt extend from sea to shining sea – rather it shaded off on its western edge into…

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    Software upgrade to limit HOLLIS availability

    During the weekend of Dec. 27 and 28, the Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems (OIS) will implement a software upgrade for HOLLIS, Harvards online integrated library system. On those days, the online HOLLIS catalog will be either limited in function or unavailable. The upgrade schedule is as follows:

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    Playwright Eve Ensler lectures at Radcliffe

    Obie Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler comes to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Thursday (Dec. 11) to discuss the activism thats sprung from her acclaimed drama The Vagina Monologues. In this lecture, called Vagina Warriors: An Emerging Paradigm, An Emerging Species, Ensler will outline the unique qualities of activists she calls Vagina Warriors, and how…

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    This year in Harvard history

    December 1890 – The Faculty of Arts and Sciences establishes the Division of American Archaeology and Ethnology. Dec. 17, 1920 – In Lawrence Hall (lost to fire in 1970 on…

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    Faculty Council notice Dec. 10

    The Interim Report on the Progress of the Curricular Review was the primary topic at the Faculty Councils fifth meeting of the year. In addition to Deans William C. Kirby (history), Benedict H. Gross (mathematics), and Jeffrey Wolcowitz (economics), Professor Eric N. Jacobsen (chemistry and chemical biology), co-chair of the Working Group on General Education,…

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    Dunlop memorial service this Friday

    A memorial service for John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor Emeritus, will be held Friday (Dec. 12) at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. A reception will follow in the Faculty Room, University Hall. Please enter through the north entrance.

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    Harvard Gazette: Sperm cells made in laboratory can fertilize eggs

    Scientists know that stem cells from embryos have the potential to develop into brain, bone, or any other type cell, but getting them to actually do this in a laboratory is a different thing. Now, for the first time, researchers have crossed this bridge by coaxing uncommitted stem cells to grow into sperm cells in…

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    CBRSS welcomes four Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars

    The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) has announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars, as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship program for outstanding new Ph.D.s in economics, political science, and sociology who wish to advance their…

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    Summers, Menino break ground for new units

    In a show of community partnership, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers stood shoulder-to-shoulder and shovel-to-shovel with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and community, city, and state leaders Thursday (Dec. 4) to break ground for 50 future units of affordable housing in Allston. The Brian J. Honan Apartments, named to honor the late city councilor from Allston-Brighton…

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    It’s never too late

    Theres good news on the research front for those who want to shed some pounds and get in shape this holiday season. A new study by Joslin Diabetes Center researchers shows that obese adults who lost just 7 percent of their weight – or 16 pounds in a 220-pound, 5-foot-5-inch woman – and did moderate-intensity…

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    Schlesinger to undergo renovation

    The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is preparing for major renovations in 2004 and will be closed to all users from Jan. 19 through Feb. 9, as part of that process.

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    Corporation to hike endowment payout

    Soaring health care and other fringe benefit costs have prompted the Harvard Corporation to take a second look at next years financial picture and add an extra $16 million in endowment funds to 2004-2005 budgets across the University.

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    Mao under a microscope

    More than Saddam Hussein, more than Osama bin Laden, Mao Zedong used to terrify people in the West. Absolute leader (or so we thought) of a billion Chinese dressed in identical drab uniforms brandishing their ubiquitous Little Red Books, Mao seemed to embody an implacable anti-individualistic force bent on destroying all that the West stood…

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    Maria Guerrero’s ‘kids’ rally in a time of trouble

    On a chilly Wednesday evening in November, Cabot Houses dining hall glows bright across the quiet Radcliffe Quad. Inside, an otherwise ordinary midweek meal sparkles with flowers, banners, flashbulbs, and Latin music. At the center of the hubbub, surrounded by students who clamor for hugs, Maria Guerrero, who has worked for Harvard University Dining Services…

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    Harvard mulls challenges facing Native Americans

    Invoking the Great Creator to guide them, Native Americans and researchers examining Native American challenges convened their first-ever Harvard-wide symposium Thursday (Dec. 4), joining forces to improve Native American lives.

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    Augusto Boal’s ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’

    Oppression, according to Augusto Boal, is when one person is dominated by the monologue of another and has no chance to reply. Boals life is devoted to giving those who are in this one-down position the tools with which to express themselves and discover a way out of their powerlessness.

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    University readies for Wen Jiabao

    Premier Wen Jiabaos visit to Harvard lasted just a few hours, but preparations for the occasion spanned nearly a month. Wens Harvard hosts – the Office of the President, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research – worked alongside hundreds of faculty, staff, and volunteers from around the University…

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    Small, vocal groups protest Wen’s visit

    Chants of China lie! People die! and Hands off Taiwan! echoed across Western Avenue in Allston Wednesday (Dec. 10) as about 85 demonstrators sent a message to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to improve human rights, stop sabre-rattling over Taiwan, and get out of Tibet.

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    Clark gives Bush the business

    This is the last in a series of interviews with Democratic presidential candidates.

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