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Several students said that the availability to use Crimson Cash would not affect their shopping—but the ability to use Board Plus would be an incentive to shop at certain businesses in the Square, they added...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Cash To Expand in Square | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

Mazur’s team is currently seeking to expand silicon’s absorption range even further—a task that requires a better understanding of how the sulfur gases affect the silicon and transform it into black silicon...

Author: By Eleanor T. Regan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Accidental Discovery of Black Silicon Holds Practical Applications | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...combination of calendar reform and a struggling job market has taken its toll on HUDS employees. “We suspect that some will lose their homes, be evicted, and become homeless within the next year,” Childs says. Moreover, he predicts that the crisis will especially affect single mothers and the younger, inexperienced workers who haven’t earned many days of paid leave, both of whom make up a large part of the HUDS work force...

Author: By Sofia V. McDonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In the Heat of the Kitchen | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...Professor of English Helen Vendler: you recently mentioned that modern poets, unlike poets in the past, have no afterlife in which to place themselves or a journey to look forward to. How does this affect their takes on life, as well as death...

Author: By Benjana Guraziu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hey, Professor! | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Last week, Harvard and MIT researchers published a study supporting the idea that using magnets on the brain can affect moral decision-making. Study participants were subjected to transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, to confuse the neurons in the brain’s moral center. Either during or after this treatment, subjects listened to fictional scenarios and judged the morality of the characters involved. Treated participants showed slight but consistent changes in moral judgment, condemning accidental transgressions but forgiving failed villainous acts...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Morals And Magnets | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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