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...task is monumental, as Gates could see. She and Allan Golston, the foundation's president of U.S. programs, visited two large public high schools, one with a high graduation rate and the other with a long history as a dropout factory. But even at John Hope College Prep, the stronger of the two, only 27% of students passed state exams last year. Neither school was meeting federal requirements for progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago public schools, was on hand to show some the district's biggest benefactors his efforts to change that...
...Anything can be art and anyone can do it,” claims George Maciunas, the founder of the Fluxus movement. The 1960s saw Maciunas filling Fluxboxes with games, ideas, and art; Nam June Paik forging robot sculptures out of television sets; and the likes of John Cage and Allan Kaprow creating “Happenings” with minimal script and ambiguous staging to blur the lines between art and reality. They formed part the loose network of border-crossing artists that shared the ethic of Fluxus. “Fluxus on Film” will be onscreen...
...grossly misled about marijuana,” Grinspoon said. “Most people associate marijuana with crime, mayhem, chromosomal damage, and brain cell depletion. But I discovered that marijuana is just as versatile and non-toxic as penicillin. It really is a wonder drug.”J. Allan Hobson, a professor of psychiatry at HMS, echoed his colleague’s sentiments about marijuana’s medical benefits but was less optimistic about its prospects for legalization.In Massachusetts, marijuana users can receive jail time and fines as high as $500. Some states, such as California, have passed...
...Professor of the History of Science Allan M. Brandt, who also holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School; computer scientist Barbara J. Grosz, dean of science at the Radcliffe Institute, which Faust currently heads; Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69, who was considered to serve as dean of FAS last spring; and Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson are also mentioned as possible candidates for the post, the sources said...
...Recent developments in dream research won't make sense without first touching on the academic thunderbolt of 1977, when a paper by two Harvard neurophysiologists, Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, ran in the American Journal of Psychiatry. At the time, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams (which holds, in part, that dreams preserve sleep by distracting the brain with reflections of the unconscious) was a pillar of psychiatry. In The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process, the Harvard pair challenged Freudian theory on virtually every point. They argued that dreams are nonsense...