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...have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, possess only one copy of this gene, while females, who have two X chromosomes, carry two," Beaver says. "Thus, if a male has a variant for the MAO-A gene that is linked to violence, there isn't another copy to counteract it." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...effects of last fall’s economic downturn began to impact the nation, the Office of Career Services had launched a new set of programs designed to “turn up the volume on diverse career options.” The new programming was designed to counteract the perception that OCS only offered help for students interested in business careers and featured events covering global public health, human rights and poverty reduction, government, international relations, education, the environment, clean technology, the creative arts, fashion, sports management, journalism, and more...
...Once class started, however, the professor would sit down with the students and start informing the class about the strike,” he added. Once universities began closing their doors in France, many students quickly grew nervous about jeopardizing their academic standing and took immediate steps to counteract this possibility, Arbuthnott said. “At first, it was very disconcerting,” Sonia Coman ’11 wrote in an e-mail. “But gradually I succeeded in establishing contact with my professors, who kindly helped me to find solutions for each course affected...
...letter to the Dean this Monday on behalf of the UC asking about the status of the report. Flores said she has yet to receive a response from Hammonds. “We would encourage Dean Hammonds to be very transparent about the recommendations of the report to counteract the past confusion about the Ad Board,” Flores said. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...their fundamental power and durability, for the ways they seem to spring from the earth. In his pronouncements on architecture there's that note of aesthetic militancy you also heard in Le Corbusier. "In a society that celebrates the inessential,"Zumthor once wrote, "architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language...