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The Fay Prize, traditionally bestowed upon an undergraduate woman who has shown scholarship, conduct and character, will not be given this year while Harvard and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study wrangle over the institutional policy problems that have arisen since this fall's merger between the two schools. It...
This is not to say that all prizes must be stripped of their original character. Since it will be awarded by the Institute, the Fay Prize could reflect the Institute's mission to contribute to the study of women, gender and society by honoring an undergraduate, male or female, who...
Indeed, there is positive evidence that, at least in the United States, more guns means less crime. Whatever the sociological explanation, be it a national character rooted in the frontier experience or the distinctive American antipathy to letting government do what we can accomplish on our own, the numbers are...
Khayam died in 1986, but a new cat quickly took over her role. Orphaned as a cub and raised on the farm, the cheetah goes by the name of Chewbaaka, after the furry Star Wars character. That's an appropriate moniker for Marker's sidekick, since you could easily call...
TIME was given an exclusive advance look at the U.N. report, which makes for sobering reading. Its conclusions are divided into assessments of five major types of ecosystems--forests, freshwater systems, coastal/marine habitats, grasslands and agricultural lands--and all five are showing signs of deterioration (see the graphics on these...