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...this academic focus on theme over method reflects a broader pedagogical recognition that students can learn multiples modes of inquiry by researching just one theme??a realization behind the reform of Harvard’s Core Curriculum into thematic General Education areas. Moreover, as Etienne Benson, a graduate student who chairs Harvard’s animal history group, notes, the multidisciplinary nature of animal studies fosters dialogue. At a recent meeting of the group, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Darwin scholar Janet Browne engaged with MIT cultural historian Harriet Ritvo on the history of sheep...
...pain killer, the pain will go away, but the cavity is still there.” The new study was ground-breaking partly because it has implication for the treatments of other neurodegenerative diseases, Krainc said. Krainc said that the accumulation of proteins is a “common theme?? among all neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. The hope, he added, is to find more specific drugs that will ablate mutant proteins. —Staff writer Gordon Y. Liao can be reached at liao@fas.harvard.edu...
...will be the feature of the next book? GM: Glinda is going to be the centerpiece, I think, of the fourth and final book in the series. It will be about a central theme??I just have to figure out what...
...years ahead of us, as usual.Yasutaka Tsutsui’s quirky and entertaining “Salmonella Men on Planet Porno,” a collection of short stories written in 1979, is just now making its debut in the United States, but the stories capitalize on the same theme??the bizarre nature of systemized society—that the contemporary television series “The Office” exploits today. Tsutsui shrewdly reveals the hairline stresses, lusts, and insanities that no society can ever completely wall in.But while Tsutsui’s message may be similar...
...important insight into the human condition. Or, more likely, it will simply bore them with its trite message. Where Levinson and De Niro so brilliantly portrayed the absurdity of Hollywood’s power in their 1997 collaboration “Wag the Dog,” the same theme??along with De Niro—seems tired and hackneyed in “What Just Happened?” If viewers want exposure to interesting, true Hollywood stories, they should just read Linson’s book. Toward the end of the movie, Robin Wright Penn poses...