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These four families rose fast and fell hard. Meticulous research culled from courthouse records, archives and interviews with descendants of the Big Four make The Big Rich a page-turning tale with well developed characters that seems boxed up and ready for the silver screen. It's impossible to read this book and not think of the 2007 film There Will Be Blood, which put the ruthless business of land rights and oil drilling into sharp focus. Burrough's tome, though, is broader and explores not just the greed, wealth and risk of early twentieth century American oil prospecting...
...move that bodes ill for University plans to transform its new Allston campus into a mecca for stem cell research, Harvard provost Steven E. Hyman has asked faculty to consider the possibility of housing the department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology in existing University facilities in Cambridge...
...Melton—a renowned stem cell researcher who has created and distributed stem cell lines free of charge for research purposes—has said in the past that an Allston facility would facilitate expansion of the SCRB department and encourage collaboration between scattered stem cell researchers...
...provide distorted information to prospective students and potentially influence admissions office decisions at colleges trying to game the rankings. For this reason, Harvard should remove itself from the publication’s annual rankings and use its reputation to encourage high school students to rely more on their own research and less on standardized rankings. In the current era of college admissions, with applications rising and acceptance rates plummeting at schools across the country, US News rankings provide an inaccurate representation of school quality that influences far too many students. As admissions get more competitive, prospective applicants apply...
...embattled homeowners. Then take a deep breath, and let's have the debate he promised, the rigorous test of "Do we need this?" and "Can we afford it?", for all the other programs currently marinating in the bill, whether the honeybee subsidy or the Pell grants or the medical research or any of the proposed investments meant to spur long-term recovery and growth...