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Despite the gloomy economic conditions, a group of 20 business-minded undergraduates found encouragement yesterday in the form of Albert E. Wenger ’90. The former president of the social bookmarking site Del.icio.us and current partner at Union Square Ventures—a firm with a diverse portfolio that includes the popular social messaging site Twitter—shared his entrepreneurial advice and experiences as part of a speaker series hosted by the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum. “It’s all about getting started,” he said. “There...
...Wednesday, former Vice President and Nobel laureate Albert A. Gore, Jr. will speak to a crowd predicted to number in the thousands. Environmentalists are bursting with excitement to hear the pronouncements of the godfather of green. More than just excitement is the possibility that Gore’s speech will slingshot the university community into an eco-fervor that will put us on course to beat President Faust’s greenhouse gas reduction goal...
...Series documents songs not only as they progress toward the final studio version (as is the case on “Tell Tale Signs”) but as they shift to fit the transformed psychology of their creator (as is the case on the sublime “Royal Albert Hall” recording). By releasing these tracks, not as bonus cuts to some cheapskate reissue of “Time Out of Mind” or “Modern Times,” but as their own document, Dylan seems to be challenging his audience, even baiting them...
JEAN FEGGINS, mother of Private First Class Albert Nelson, claiming military officials lied about how her son died in Iraq after a video surfaced that seems to show his death by friendly fire...
George Palade, a pioneer in cell biology, won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in isolating and identifying cell structure. His research, which he conducted along with biologists Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, used electron microscopy to identify the functions of mitochondria (the powerhouse of a cell) and ribosomes (proteinmakers), as well as other cell components. Having emigrated from Romania in 1946, Palade became chairman of the cell-biology department at Yale in 1973 and then the founding dean of scientific affairs at the University of California at San Diego...