Year: 2003

  • Nation & World

    Geri Barney:

    If I just stay here near the road that is made for me…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What would Kant do?:

    Justice prevails.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In brief

    Temporary teachers sought As part of the Harvard School Vacation Program, Work/Life and Family Resources is looking for teachers or teacher assistants to work with school-age children of University faculty…

    1 minute
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    President and Provost office hours

    President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Faculty Council notice for Jan. 8

    At its seventh meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the implications for the Faculty of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act and other recent and related government legislation and regulation. Deputy General Counsel Robert Iuliano and Professor Paul Martin, dean for Research and Information Technology in FAS were present for this discussion.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    ‘Paycheck changes for staff’ correction

    A chart that accompanied the Dec. 12, 2002, Gazette article titled Paycheck changes for staff contained an error. The charts last two headings were inadvertently transposed. The corrected headings appear in the chart above. The Gazette regrets the error.

    1 minute
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    Police issue advisory:

    On Dec. 21, at approximately 4:30 a.m., three Harvard Business School students were the victims of an armed robbery at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street. The victims reported that two males approached them from behind, produced two small handguns, and proceeded to take the wallet of one of the victims. One of…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Let it snow!

    At least one figure in the Winthrop House courtyard was unfazed by one of the many snowfalls that has whitened Cambridge and the rest of New England recently.

    1 minute
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    Harvard College announces early admissions figures

    Despite a substantial jump in Early Action applications to Harvard College this year, the number of admitted students remained at roughly the same level as the previous five years. A total of 1,150 students were admitted this year from a record pool of 7,620. Last year, 1,174 of 6,126 applicants were admitted.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hundreds of thousands with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis could be saved

    A study has provided the first hard evidence that outpatient community care in poor, urban shantytowns can work for the most difficult to treat form of tuberculosis. The multidrug-resistant tuberculosis…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Testosterone drives away the blues

    In the 1940s, experiments showed that major depression can be relieved by injecting testosterone into men with low levels of that hormone. The treatment never caught on because the shots…

    1 minute
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    Study finds frequent consumption of alcohol linked to lower risk of heart attack in men

    Men who drank moderate amounts of alcoholic beverages three or more times a week had a risk of myocardial infarction 30 to 35 percent lower than nondrinkers. The observational study,…

    1 minute
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    Alzheimer’s disease: New theory on how it damages brain

    Studies have shown that the buildup in the brain of certain toxic proteins, called amyloids, leads to the emergence of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Research has traditionally focused on…

    1 minute
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    Meat consumption may not increase breast cancer risk

    After following 88,647 women for 18 years, the largest and longest individual study of its kind to date, researcher Michelle Holmes and her co-investigators found no evidence that intake of…

    1 minute
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    Hypergiant star erupts

    In the year 2000, the star Rho Cassiopeiae, n the constellation of Cassiopeia, lost more mass than in any other stellar eruption observed by astronomers. An international team of astronomers,…

    1 minute
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    New research questions competition in corporate charters

    The dominant state in attracting the incorporations of publicly traded companies is, and has long been, the state of Delaware. Although home to less than one-third of one percent of…

    1 minute
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    It may someday be possible to stay slim while eating what you want

    A study led by Joslin Diabetes Center researchers and published in the Jan. 24, 2003 issue of the journal Science brings scientists one step closer to turning the dream of…

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