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Clearly, reading period must die. Then there is the question of what to do with the extra time. Students from the West Coast, among others, argue that Thanksgiving vacation should be extended to give them sufficient time to fly home or relax. But a week-long Thanksgiving break would in fact be harder for students. Long summers, not short respites in the middle of the year when there’s homework to do or class schedules to plan, are the time to escape Harvard’s stressful environment. By lengthening the total period of time from the first...
Horowitz, who has taught physics at Harvard since 1974, is a leading figure in the official Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)—a national project devoted to identifying intelligent life outside our galaxy, with hubs at Harvard and Princeton...
...pages following the Arts section for extra coverage of news and trends in the world of commerce...
...unsophisticated way. Many of the unpublished studies they reviewed came from the drug companies themselves, and at least some of those had been carried out for a very specific purpose. Under FDA rules, any company that tests its medications on young people at the FDA's request wins an extra six months' worth of patent protection, whether or not the results are positive. Since these studies were done for financial gain and weren't reviewed by independent scientists, they probably shouldn't be given full weight. Making them public, as activists demand, might muddy the waters rather than help families...
That's fine for Disney-ABC but not for the movie industry, which used to earn extra millions by promoting favored films in the 40 days between the announcement of the nominations and the opening of the envelopes. The smaller artsy films and Oscar hopefuls released in late December could earn the majority of their box-office take in that period. "In terms of theatrical box office," says Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Films, "the money is in the nominations, not in the award...