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...Allston Science Complex as early as 2011, the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology will now occupy the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building, uprooting the MCB researchers currently situated there. The impending move, likely to occur by summer, has already posed an “enormous distraction?? to research, said one professor, whose laboratory, like that of Maniatis, is housed in Fairchild. The professor—who asked that he not be named in order to preserve his relationship with the University—said that he would certainly consider opportunities to leave Harvard in light...
...impending move, likely to occur by summer, has already posed an “enormous distraction?? to research, said one professor, whose laboratory, like that of Maniatis, is housed in Fairchild...
...second of Obama’s nominees to withdraw his name from consideration because of tax problems. This happened only a few hours after prospective chief performance officer Nancy Killefer did the same. Daschle explained that he withdrew so that his mistake would not “be a distraction?? from Obama’s health-care initiative, but the sentiment was too little too late: Both developments unfolded in the midst of controversy surrounding recently confirmed treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, who was found to have delayed payment on $34,000 worth of income taxes. All things considered...
Rentschler calls the films in the series “remarkably compelling social documents,” and says that such “exercises in diversion and distraction??can’t erase the past...
...speech last night, Pipes rejected what he described as the conventional view of the Arab-Israeli conflict—that the current violence is simply a “distraction?? from the peace process...