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...Don’t Tell, penalizing the brave men and women who serve their country in ROTC to make a political point. Harvard is willing to make sacrifices to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell—as long as the sacrifices affect only ROTC students and not the university’s budget...
...Frequent mental distress has probably increased since 2006," says Zack, "though whether the recent worsening of the economy will affect all areas equally is uncertain...
...Adams House, stepped to the podium to ask Smith to clarify his priorities. “I think that staff would like to know that there’s a real person who has real priorities that will give them better insight into what is ultimately going to affect them down the road,” he said, donning glasses and a purple tie. Smith then proceeded to say that his priorities—faculty scholarship, undergraduate education, and the new General Education program—have not changed since he stepped into his office. Levy also thanked Smith...
...recent reports about the power grid's vulnerability to cyberattacks may have more to do with politics than anything else. The news flurry coincided with the introduction of a new bill, by Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe, to impose cybersecurity standards on private industry - regulations that would likely affect the utilities and other vital infrastructure. And this week marks the end of a 60-day review by the National Security Council of the nation's cybersecurity polices and practices; the results will be submitted to President Obama any day now, and will likely be made public later this month...
...temperature change of a tenth of a degree centigrade. Farrell did acknowledge that there could have been larger temperature effects caused by sunspots in the past. “A strong correlation between the amount of radioactive carbon and temperature from ice cores has shown that solar activity can affect temperature,” Farrell said. He cautioned that the link was “a hypothesis...[that] does not have firm scientific grounding.” But Soon said that there have been much greater temperature fluctuations due to sunspots in the past and that proponents of global warming...