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...Grove, Calif., draw visitors with specific sermon topics. Barry Smith, senior pastor at Impact, started an online confession board last spring to enhance his four-week sermon series on the theme of secrets. The idea, says Smith, "was not so much theological as psychological"--a way to aid people carrying the shame of long-held secrets. For at least two of his congregants, the effort was transformative. A former prison guard--let's call him Jack--had been unfaithful to his wife and says he was feeling "crushed" by guilt. A few days after Jack posted the site's first...
Halamka is one of the first 10 volunteers of the Personal Genome Project to publicly release his medical record and personal genome. Spearheaded by Medical School professor George M. Church in January 2006, the PGP aims to create an extensive database of genetic information. The data will not only aid researchers finding treatments for disease, but also bring the dream of personalized medicine one step closer to reality...
...will have his hands full if Harvard can’t keep the Tiger D honest with the run.The ground game will be bolstered by the return of sophomore Gino Gordon, who was out nursing an injury last weekend, but leads the team in yards per game.Also resurfacing to aid the offensive attack is sophomore Chris Lorditch, who went down with an ankle sprain in week three at Lafayette.“We’re really fortunate to have guys step up, but you can’t diminish the return of guys like that,” Pizzotti...
...string. This new and improved format will drastically decrease the incidence of students with numbers in their e-mail address, which often happens when several students share a name. It will also be much easier to identify students based on their e-mail address. Furthermore, this change will aid in contacting students, if their name—but not their e-mail address—is known. We fear that if given the opportunity to fully customize their e-mail addresses, incoming freshmen might opt for confusing or inappropriate tags, such as “drew.faust@college?...
...because Baylor wanted to boost its ranking in U.S. News and World Report’s list of “Best Colleges.” Baylor incentivized freshmen with $300 at the campus bookstore to retake their SATs and offered $1,000 a year in scholarship aid to those who raised their scores by at least 50 points. Though seemingly cavalier and unethical, programs like this are products of the bizarre and destruction nature of the rank system employed and popularized by U.S. News and World Report...