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American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand...
But sitting quietly in her lab, Victoria D’Souza, the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Department’s new and only HIV virologist, is doing the actual fighting with the villain behind it all—the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
“The thing that’s fun,” he adds, sitting on a bench at the Kendall Square T stop, “Is that it’s almost like a psychology test. And [the builders] probably meant it that way.?...
Which isn’t to say that language is irrelevant: as the title suggests, Patchett’s writing has its own musical quality. From the first sentence to the last, “Bel Canto” flows so beautifully that it is quite possible to read it...
It’s not that I’m enamored with the local topography; far from it. After four academic years, I’d probably be hard-pressed to locate any streets beyond Mass. Avenue, Mount Auburn, Plympton, and JFK (hint: There is an eponymous school of government...