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...disappointed when students stopped complaining around the 70s. People came into his class already thinking they were pre-med and had to just take notes and get an A,” said his son Elijah Wald. “He believed every educated person should understand Hamlet and the Second Law of Thermodynamics...
Pinker, Goodall, and Wrangham are members of a colony of approximately 24 cotton-top tamarins that dwell in Harvard’s Cognitive Evolutionary Laboratory. The lab, led by psychology professor Marc D. Hauser, tries to better understand human cognitive ability by studying our distant evolutionary cousins...
...into the colony room, and see a female hanging upside down, with her vaginal area facing a heater fan in the room,” Hauser writes in an e-mail. “I can’t quite understand why. Then I see her urinate into the fan, and bingo, a new function...
...nascent course offerings in Asian American, Latino, and Native American studies.Lastly, given that Asian Americans represent about a fifth of all Harvard undergraduates, Asian-American studies is not only an important field of inquiry in and of itself, but is also especially relevant to the Harvard community. We understand, however, the reticence of the administration to open the door to dozens of analogous programs, each one a “tub on its own bottom.” In order to neutralize this concern—and make the case for the importance of studying ethnic minorities in general?...
...Bali to deliver that message, meeting with foreign delegations, his rhetoric backed by the recent passage by the Senate Environment Committee of the Warner-Lieberman Climate Bill, which calls for 15% emission reductions by 2020. "I wanted to make certain that those folks who are involved in the negotiations understand that they are not alone in dealing with this," says Kerry. "The Administration is isolated in its own country." Kerry, Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and 50 other members of Congress sent a protest letter Wednesday to President Bush calling for U.S. negotiators to drop their opposition to emission targets...