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Experts also point out that much investment in computers does not even aim at increasing productivity. It is intended to expand or protect market share. Computers can be misused too, especially by businessmen who buy them to keep up with the corporate Joneses. "We have clients who buy the most expensive laptops and systems and then just run an ordinary word-processing program," says Alex Reppen, a New York computer consultant, who notes, "People try to automate things that really have no business being automated...
...cope with freedom. The concept of freedom is so deeply ingrained in U.S. culture that it never occurs to us that other nations do not even know exactly what to embrace. It becomes all the more imperative for the West to teach these concepts to others, rather than aim for an economic coup in evolving nations. Our challenge is to elect leaders who are better than individual countries deserve--they must serve the world. KRIS GALLAGHER Chicago...
People generally think of a vaccine as something that fends off an illness before it gets started. But this one mobilizes the immune system against already established tumors. Lyerly and his colleagues aim to enhance the ability of dendritic cells, an alarm conveyor in the immune system, to target the cancerous cells and make it easier for the body's killer T cells to recognize and destroy them. If it works, this approach promises a more effective and much less toxic alternative to the carpet bombing that is chemotherapy. After decades in which immune therapies have failed to live...
...aim of the center is to become the leading institution for applying empirical methods and formal theories to systematic research," said Alt yesterday...
Staffers of The Current said they aim to expand the definition of politics as currently reported by Harvard students and fill what many said they believe is a void in the campus's journalism...