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Every generation gets the sci-fi paranoia it deserves. Or lately, it borrows the paranoia from a previous generation. ABC's V (the highest-rated new show of the fall) is a remake, or in the new parlance, "reimagining," of a camp-classic 1980s miniseries about an alien takeover, which used its lizards-in-human-clothing story as an allegory for the rise of Nazism...
...ably edited by senior writer Lev Grossman. One glowing exception to the trend is our invention of the year. We chose the Ares I rocket not only because it's a marvel of engineering but also for a symbolic reason: it's a link between a horrific past (the V-2 rocket used by Germany during World War II) and an optimistic future, in which we reclaim the dream of traveling to other planets...
...Daniel V. Kroop ’10, who worked on the campaign to elect the current President Andrea R. Flores ’10 and McLeod, called it “incredibly disappointing” that she left the meeting...
Around 10 a.m. on Thursday, Flores tried to log into ucpres@gmail.com, an account for which only she, Vice President McLeod, and Student Relations Committee Chair Daniel V. Kroop ’10 knew the password. The account sends e-mails on the behalf of the Council president with the listed address of ucpres@fas.harvard.edu, Flores said...
...very fulfilling to put something empirical on paper because this field has been fairly ideological in the past,” said Dr. S V Subramanian, an associate professor in the department of Society, Human Development, and Health at HSPH and one of the authors of the study...