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After years of planning and preparation, a new University-wide calendar took effect this fall. Under the new schedule, which was approved by the Harvard Corporation in 2007, Harvard dispensed with its traditional mix of schedules in favor of starting all classes at the beginning of September and having students finish papers and exams before Winter Break. While most welcomed the worry-free break provided by the new calendar, many students and professors struggled to adapt to the condensed fall reading period...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOP 10 NEWS STORIES OF 2009 | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Mexican insurrections often do coincide with important dates. Most recently, Zapatista guerrillas in the poor southern state of Chiapas started a revolt on Jan. 1, 1994, the day the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect. A big fear now is that Mexico's drug cartels, responsible for almost 15,000 killings in the past decade, are lending their resources and firepower to emerging guerrilla groups. If so, their plan may be to sow bicentennial terror and turn Mexicans against President Felipe Calderón's drug-war offensive. This past fall authorities say they seized an arsenal of large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Mexico Is Anxious About Its Bicentennial | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

...Indeed, the case will have little effect on how China views the death penalty. "While there's some role for international opinion and international engagement with China on capital punishment, I think that the primary motive force for change and progress in the area of capital punishment in China is going to be internal," says Joshua Rosenzweig, Hong Kong-based manager of the Dui Hua Foundation, a U.S. human-rights group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite a Controversial Execution, China Curbs Use of the Death Penalty | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...months and then yearly, was similar for both the ginkgo and placebo groups. "Quite frankly, one of the things that surprised us was that for an extract that has been around for this long, there ought to be a signal of some sort, or we ought to see some effect for it to have maintained its reputation for so long," says DeKosky. "And we didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Ginkgo Flunks Test as a Brain Booster | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

DeKosky admits that the study has its limitations - the subjects were more than 70 years old, and it's not clear whether ginkgo's effect on the brain may be more profound if introduced earlier. Then there is the question of exactly how ginkgo is acting on the body; if the compound works by improving circulation not just in the brain but throughout the body, for example, then this study may not have been refined enough to pick up those subtle, more indirect effects. "What we would really like to see is additional research," says Douglas MacKay, vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Ginkgo Flunks Test as a Brain Booster | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

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