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Crime in Cambridge dropped almost 40 percent from 1989 to 1998, and crime levels are expected stay constant this year, according to a police report released two weeks ago...
When he first got to the Graduate School of Education (GSE) three years ago, doctoral student Frank Tuitt says he didn't feel like he belonged at Harvard...
...years ago today, leaders from around the globe began a 10-day United Nations summit in Kyoto, Japan to address the threat of global climate change. While the risks posed by such change have not disappeared, serious proposals to mitigate climate change (or "global warming") have vanished from the political map. After two years of stasis, it is high time that the United States face the problem of a changing climate and take positive steps to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...
Pedestrian lists of the "Century's Greatest" are all the rage these days, but yesterday we celebrated truly the greatest man of our century: November 30 was the birthday of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, born one hundred twenty-five years ago in 1874. A celebration on these pages might rightly emphasize Churchill's life in the last century if we want to appreciate fully and learn from his greatness in our century...
...question" says TIME science correspondent Christine Gorman. "But some people may ask what the point of conducting such tests would be, since there's no question of malice and the answer has no implications for medicine and science today - you're talking about a technology of 50 years ago. Now, genetic engineering allows us to create in controlled laboratory conditions vaccines and drugs once made from animal tissue...