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...Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would allow federal funds, the financial lifeblood of scientists and laboratories, to flow to embryonic stem cell research. The bill's proponents claim that these by-products of in-vitro fertilization may be able to help cure a wide host of diseases, including juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's (recall the hubbub over the stem cell ads that aired during last year's Senate race in Missouri starring Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's). Those opposed, including many on the right, regard it as the destruction of early human life. Others...
Never have I felt so in tune with a critic as I did while reading Richard Schickel's review of the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie [June 4]. He was right that you can't follow the story while wide awake but that sleeping is out of the question because the movie is too noisy. I had no idea what the characters were doing but I loved watching them do it. My husband said if they make another one, it will be about the fountain of youth. I responded, "Oh, Lord, you mean they might make another...
Your article on the growing number of cheating students reported that 67% of respondents to a survey admitted to having cheated. I can imagine that many readers opened their eyes wide in surprise, but we students did not. Even the most honest straight-A students will succumb to the pressure of cheating more than once in their academic career. Students will always stay three steps ahead of administrators in this game. Schools should go after repeat cheaters rather than one-time cheaters. And perhaps teachers should spend less time being worried about the honesty of their students and spend more...
...Petersen went on to organize a referendum in which 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduates participating called for the calendar to be changed. Two weeks later, Interim President Derek C. Bok e-mailed the Harvard community to reopen a University-wide conversation on the calendar. A decision on the matter was expected Commencement week...
Interim University President Derek C. Bok announced today that Harvard’s governing boards had approved his recommendation to create a reformed, University-wide calendar.The new calendar configuration will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year in May.Implementation of the changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools...