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...These are very narrow roads," Whitelaw said. "They're trying the best they can to get to where it crashed. They're running up the road with stretchers and medical equipment." Most phone lines were down and power was cut off, he said...
...think that in terms of realizing the goals of Harvard, which I see as fostering excellence in education, Harvard traditionally has taken a somewhat narrow and politically biased view of what constitutes intellectually legitimate research. It doesn't include the Left," Lieberman says...
Jamie Hanlon stuffed in a third-period shot to narrow Lowell's lead to one, but the Big Green (2-7-3, 2-11-3) failed to finish the comeback...
...emphasis on AIDS research is also beginning to draw fire from scientists whose non-AIDS projects have been squeezed for funds. Traditionally, major health efforts have fueled broad basic-research programs. But "AIDS money is targeted," observes Donald Fredrickson, former director of the National Institutes of Health. The narrow focus reduces the chances of spin-off discoveries for other diseases. Says David Korn, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine: "The course of discovery in biology is not linear. When you target money too narrowly, you exclude other areas that may prove to be very fruitful...
RETURNING to Cambridge in January for Reading Period can truly broaden horizons, as any Harvard student will confirm. Education is all about broadening horizons, and of course Reading Period is all about education. This year was hard, though. The newspapers would not let us forget how narrow Harvard's horizons are. For the rest of Boston, Reading with a capital R is pronounced not "Reeding" but "Redding." As in Reading, Mass., where Charles and Carol Stuart owned their nice, comfortable suburban home...