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While conceding that the Harvard admissions system is far from perfect, one current and two former Harvard undergraduate admissions deans told members of the Alumni Association yesterday that Harvard's current student body is more diverse and academically stronger than ever before...
...College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50--said in a panel discussion held in conjunction with the Alumni Association's 150th anniversary that changes in the College's admissions process are responsible for the higher overall quality of its current student body...
Doctors are also studying patterns ofdiscrimination against AIDS victims, designingeducational programs for schools and the workplaceand assessing the effectiveness of current AIDSlegislation...
...Current experiments include tagging CPFmolecules with radioactive chemicals to betterunderstand how the drug interacts with the virus,Burakoff says. In addition, he says, theresearchers will try to implant both human immunecells and the AIDS virus into mice with no immunesystem, to see whether the CDF molecule reallyblocks the disease from spreading...
...scientists wear two pairs of rubber gloves while conducting experiments, but the hood provides an extra measure of safety by placing a downward flowing air current between the researcher and the samples. Thus, if any particle came floating toward the scientist, the current of air would push it down to a filter at the hood's bottom, preventing it from ever reaching the scientist...