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...Microtrends” is trivialized by this focus on numbers. In a society already far too defined by quantities—scores and grades, income, and even age being only a few examples of how individuals are judged on the basis of nothing more than a counting system??Penn’s book serves to magnify the differences rather than bridge any polarizing gaps between cross-cutting groups.But at least the numbers game accomplishes one goal: When you list every trend you see, you’re bound to get one right...
...most reported bacterial STD in the U.S., but chlamydia may be on the brink of extinction. Michael N. Starnbach, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is collaborating with a team of researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia to study the immune system??s response to chlamydia. They hope this research will ultimately result in the creation of a vaccine. “I would hope that we might be able to get to the first phase...of a vaccine trial within the next three to five years,” says...
...resident Harvard officers who, more often than not, know little about the undergraduate curriculum and are ill-matched to their interests. Building on the success of the sophomore advising program however, the first-year advising system can easily be retooled to take advantage of the House-based system??s benefits. A major advantage of the sophomore advising system is that it exists within the context of the Houses. Resident tutors, each with their own academic interests, eat and live among students and are constantly available to them for advice, be it on a formal or casual basis. Even...
...country—probably not many of Colbert’s 1.4 million Facebook backers intend to cast a vote for Steven come primary day. But the unprecedented level of support for him speaks volumes about the popular perception of presidential politics. Colbert is a satirist who mocks the system??his entire character is a self-parodying illusion. The fact that a “fake” candidacy can generate so much more enthusiasm than any of the various “real” candidacies out there reveals the extent of the disgust many people, especially...
...number of U.S. veterans without health insurance has soared to almost 1.8 million—nearly one quarter of all veterans in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system??since the year President Bush was elected, according to a new Harvard Medical School study...