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...that financial constraints were forcing it to slow construction of the much-anticipated Science Complex, which was intended to house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and be a hub for interdisciplinary research. At the time, Harvard decided to halt procurement of materials for future construction and potentially reduce the number of workers on site. University officials have said they will make a decision about whether to proceed with the project in December. At a Construction Management Sub-Committee meeting Wednesday evening, local resident Joyce Radnor said that some neighbors have become concerned that the pouring of concrete is a signal...
...also bothered as much as the next person by the thought or sight of animals being mistreated. But to ignore, objectify, or blame the six billion HUMANS on the planet—many of whom are suffering whether from poverty, malnutrition, starvation, obesity, or any number of other things—is simply unforgivable...
...Armstrong, clinical director for the Boston-based Multiservice Eating Disorders Association, told Flyby that clinicians from her organization working with area colleges, which include Harvard, have definitely noticed a growing number of drunkorexia cases. She didn’t have statistics for drunkorexia and didn't cite Harvard specifically, but noted that in 2009, an estimated one in 12 college students struggled with eating disorders. Of the 24 million people diagnosed with eating disorder cases in the U.S., she said, roughly two-thirds were college students...
...Raising the status of women in many communities requires a multifaceted approach because gender discrimination is ingrained in so many parts of everyday life. SEWA, for example, provides vocational training in a huge number of different trades so women can earn their own incomes. Reading and writing are essential for even basic things, like reading the numbers on buses and the prices in stores; therefore SEWA started literacy programs and its own university for younger members. It schools women in basic first aid and provides counseling and child support for widows. It has established its own bank because no other...
...University Art Gallery will continue as planned, though, as will the design and site clearance for two new residential colleges. Levin also wrote that faculty recruitment in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences would proceed at a much-reduced pace, but he did not specify the number of new professors to be hired in this year except to say that it would be “imprudent” to decrease the overall size of the faculty. Yale will continue to conduct searches for researchers specializing in neuroscience, cancer, and cardiovascular disease since “outstanding...