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...Bellangas believe—God provides them with a Succah, $1,000, and two guests to share their celebration. These guests are actually escaped convicts and their rude behavior quickly begins to wear out the Bellangas’ Job-like patience. Believing the guests are God’s test, the Bellangas continue to house the guests to the point of their marriage’s dissolution. The Orthodox religious maxims that fill each frame (i.e. “there’s God; there’s only God”) are incessant enough to become distracting; however...
Darryl C. Y. Li ’01, who served as a fellow at Human Rights Watch in 2003 and 2004, sharply questioned Procaccia about her court’s “watering down” of international human rights safeguards through its balancing test...
Harvard researchers have found new ways of assembling nanowires—ultra-thin wires that have the potential to revolutionize electronics—and a new application of the technology that may make over-the-counter cancer tests available in drugstores in the near future. Ritesh Agarwal, a former Harvard postdoctoral associate, published a paper this week in Optics Express on a new technique for assembling and arranging nanowires, which are smaller than any circuitry currently available, even on microchips. The ability to construct specific, three-dimensional, nano-scale devices at the whim of a researcher has until this week...
...members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that physicians are still prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to patients with sore throats. The study centered on the frequency of administering strep throat antibiotic to children and the frequency of testing for strep. According to one of the authors, Grace M. Lee ’93, an instructor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, the study is responding to the “notion that as a general community, we are hoping to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing, especially for respiratory...
...spokesman Jim Aisner also attributed the salary increase to the improving economy and a increase in the number of students seeking jobs with high paying hedge funds and venture capital firms. According to a survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT test, the mean base salary of MBA graduates nationwide increased by $10,000 to $88,626 from a year ago. These reports of rising salaries come at a time when the number of applications to business school are decreasing. The number of applications to HBS has dropped steadily from 10,382 applications...