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...ongoing, larger effort funded by FAS known as the “Core project,” which seeks to upgrade FAS networks. Over the past few years, Selsby said that FAS IT has been upgrading “all sorts of things,” including actual servers, machine rooms, and the electrical system itself...
...Moreover, the increase in inflation has been milder this time--on the order of 1 percentage point over the past year as compared with the 6 percentage point jump that followed the 1973 oil price shock.4 From the perspective of monetary policy, just as important as the behavior of actual inflation is what households and businesses expect to happen to inflation in the future, particularly over the longer term. If people expect an increase in inflation to be temporary and do not build it into their longer-term plans for setting wages and prices, then the inflation created...
...families. Unlike other reports such as the National Institutes of Health’s “A Broken Pipeline,” which pushes for higher funding levels, the Academy’s study focuses on the distribution of funding, which Berlowitz said is more important than the actual funding level itself. “Even if the pie is small, it is important that these particular groups have their fair share of the pie,” Berlowitz said. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
Beyond the actual substance of the decision, its timing and lack of transparency were also troubling. The fact that the announcement was made well after the application deadline seems arbitrary considering how long the housing situation has been stagnating. Although the College will reimburse the application fee, applicants cannot be compensated for the loss of time, energy, or additional fees associated with applying to college. Ultimately, this amounts to a default rejection of some students who might have been among Harvard’s best, undermining the many recent admissions initiatives aimed at attracting the strongest, most diverse, and most...
...Schiefsky said he approaches the history of science in a way that “gives a lot of weight to actual practitioners,” pointing out that ancient doctors and craftsmen were often able to utilize practical knowledge before the theories behind their findings had been discovered. One example is the invention of the catapult well before Archimedes explained the principle of the lever...