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...administrators began a discussion last summer of the possible plans for renovation of its own residential houses. According to Suzy M. Nelson, associate dean of residential life, the potential plans are varied, with timelines lasting from 10 to 30 to 50 years, with the main goal being to correct basic issues such as plumbing, heating, and fire safety, while also hopefully improving the use of space. If Harvard decides to proceed with the 50 year plan, the Houses would be gutted one by one, and thoroughly renovated. In the meantime, displaced students would be housed in a temporary dorm provided...
...Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and even then, may still not know with certainty until late in the summer. Between now and then, the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have a responsibility to the millions of Democrats who have participated in the election to maintain a basic level of civility. This applies equally to the candidates and their staffers and advisors. The sort of personal animosity that motivated Obama’s advisor and Kennedy School professor Samantha Power’s comment last week, calling Clinton a “monster,” simply cannot be tolerated. Otherwise...
...released at a press conference immediately preceding the hearing, focused on the funding decline’s impact on junior researchers.“I have come to speak to you because of what I am hearing from post-doctoral fellows and students considering a career in basic research,” Faust said to the committee. “They see a future defined by new limits—not in ideas, energy, intelligence or enthusiasm—but in opportunity.”Harvard received $329 million in grants from the NIH last year, making...
...Eslamshahr, one such town of about 300,000 people an hour outside of Tehran, is typical of the places to which Ahmadinejad looks as the bedrock of his support. It's a dusty place with only basic infrastructure, greeting visitors with "Welcome to the martyr-nurturing town of Eslamshahr...
Another confounding issue in Hannah's case is the finding that she suffers from a mitochondrial disorder - a dysfunction in basic cell metabolism. Mitochondria serve as power generators for each cell in the body, converting food and oxygen into energy. There are a wide range of these disorders, causing symptoms that vary widely but can include muscle weakness, cardiac or liver disease, diabetes, developmental delays and susceptibility to infection. In Hannah's case, the vaccine court determined that the underlying dysfunction of her mitochondria put her at an increased risk of injury from vaccines...