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...announcement, made Monday, likely comes too close to Harvard’s Jan. 1 application deadline to affect the number of applicants to the Class of 2012, Fitzsimoons said. But given Harvard’s decision to eliminate early action, this year’s yield may be hard to predict...
...manufacturing problem does not affect the strength or effectiveness of the vaccine. "It's important to understand that the recall has nothing to do with the potency of the vaccine," says CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding. "Children who received the vaccine are protected against haemophilus. There is no need to re-immunize...
Mind Your Morals The article's title, "What Makes Us Moral," contains the basic mistake we make in trying to understand ourselves and our fellow human beings [Dec. 3]. Nothing makes us anything. We make choices, which then affect our brain chemistry. In trying to be scientific, we often reverse the relationship. While Jeffrey Kluger may value the choices we make, he did not use the word choices in his examination of morality. The connection we have with our community is a powerful factor in how we choose to behave, of course, and we do place others outside our community...
...family’s ability to pay—which will cut out an average of $4,000 per year in payments—is a wise one. Houses are not liquid assets, and a family should not be penalized for increases in housing prices that do not affect a family’s short-term financial situation. All in all, this program appears to be one that has been well thought through and will certainly help to increase Harvard’s diversity on campus. However, as with any program, the key will be implementation. In its press release...
...Despite the moral support they lend to those pushing the U.S. to accept stronger action, Gore, Kerry and the rest of the shadow U.S. delegation are ultimately powerless to affect the outcome at Bali - the fate of the negotiations remains in the hands of President Bush and his negotiators. Toward the end of his speech Gore, with his customary taste for the eccentric analogy, invoked the hockey player Bobby Hull, who Gore said was skilled because he sent the puck, not where his teammates were, but where they would be. "You have to look to where we're going...