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...When government agencies and officials are displaying their incompetence on a regular basis, it is refreshing to see what private citizens are willing and able to accomplish on their own. Well done! Warren LeBow Voluntown, Connecticut...
...ruling marks the end of our legal battle. But the legal battle is only one front of our campaign to apply sensible free-access standards to the HUPD’s records. The legislation proposed by Barrios and Toomey, if passed by the full Massachusetts legislature, will accomplish this task by explicitly applying free-access standards to campus police departments statewide. The bill has already been favorably assessed by the Senate Rules Committee and the State Administration Committee. When the bill will be introduced to the full legislature is unclear, but when it does, the legislature will have to decide...
...small that it is invisible to the naked eye. But, in fact, the global and intellectual effects of one microscopic murderer are beyond the scope of anything we can see. For all of its horror, AIDS is beginning to do what few other problems have been able to accomplish: serving as a catalyst to bring the study of humans as people and humans as organisms closer together than ever before. And one introductory lecture course at Harvard is using the study of AIDS to bridge that gap, too.The Life Sciences 1 curriculum has taken on the ambitious task of providing...
When government agencies and officials regularly display their incompetence, it is refreshing to see what private citizens are able to accomplish on their own. Well done...
Memory Pharmaceuticals in Montvale, N.J., for instance, is developing drugs that boost the expression of genes essential to shoring up the connections among neurons?the physical process that is thought to turn immediate experiences into long-term memories. Cortex Pharmaceuticals in Irvine, Calif., meanwhile, is testing compounds that accomplish something similar more indirectly. Those molecules amplify the response of brain chemicals called AMPA receptors, among the first players in a long biochemical cascade that takes place in the neuron as it encodes memory. The first of those ampakine molecules has been shown in a recent study to boost the attention...