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...During his time at the Lampoon Conan O’Brien told Burt Ward, the man known for his role as Robin in Batman, that he represented a security firm retained to protect his Robin costume during Ward's visit to Harvard. By masquerading as a security firm O’Brien stole the costume, allegedly one of Ward's few sources of income, and took it back to the castle where members of the Lampoon repeatedly tried it on until the police forced them to return it. But at 6’5” O’Brien...
...said Richard M. Losick, a professor of biology and head tutor in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department. “The Harvard experience would be missing.” For years, undergraduate students in popular courses like Physical Sciences 1 have used a device popularly known as the PRS Clicker, which is used for in-class question and answer sessions—or often, pop quizzes. The device was created in 1994 by Physics Professor Eric Mazur who said that his aim in developing the device was to enhance rather than distract from the learning process. Losick, who joint...
...toxic materials like Agent Orange and depleted uranium. It also admitted that on at least one occasion, during a chemical-warfare drill in 1969 for a project called SHAD - for Shipboard Hazard & Defense, which was part of Project 112 - it had sprayed trioctyl phosphate, a chemical compound known to cause cancer in animals, as a simulant for nerve agents. When the Navy left, the island was declared a federal Superfund site for environmental cleanup. The Navy has cleared thousands of undetonated bombs and turned its area of the island into a fish and wildlife refuge...
...many other states have already found out, changing the juvenile-justice culture is easier said than done. Shifting to what is called a "trauma-based" or "sanctuary model" means training guards (who are formally known in New York as youth-division aides) to better understand how to deal with disturbed kids. But this is a three-year process that has only just begun at some of the state's most troubled institutions, and many of the staff are not particularly well-educated themselves. The transition can also aggravate existing problems, including what the union says is severe understaffing. Training takes...
Among the kids, it was known as Rug Burn City, a reference to the injuries they sustained when guards at the Gossett juvenile prison in upstate New York routinely pinned young offenders face down on the carpeted floor. The restraints were supposed to be an infrequent last resort, but according to a damning recent Justice Department report, they ended up being used regularly as part of a culture of intimidation and control, sometimes for the slightest infractions, such as speaking out of turn, slamming doors and not properly making...