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...those academics and bookworms, however, what a coup this machine is! One can almost begin to imagine the fulfillment of that utopian dream held by book collectors since at least the 15th century: a comprehensive, universal library—a single place where nearly every surviving printed book in English can be accessed within minutes. Perhaps they will still cost, but they will be available, all of them, in print...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Dream of a Universal Bookstore | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...Almost as bizarre as Kucharczyk’s journey to the field hockey team was her first score. Just minutes before her goal, Kucharczyk heard a call from the Harvard sideline telling her to come out for a substitution...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Comes Up Short in Solid Performance | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...complicated,” Captain Anna M. Ruman ’10 says. “You have to constantly, constantly be talking,” the team’s other captain, Rachelle M. Calixte ’10 chimes in. “I almost always lose my voice after a game...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rough, Yet Personal, Sport | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

General anesthesia - the enabler of modern surgery and medical intervention - is one of the great triumphs of the scientific method. Ether, the compound from which almost all modern anesthetics are derived, was discovered largely by luck and its derivatives through trial and error. As a result, however, much about these drugs remains mysterious. Even today, doctors are baffled as to why exactly anesthetics cause unconsciousness in patients. (See the most common hospital mishaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anesthesia: Could Early Use Affect the Brain Later? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...what could almost be contrived as a follow-up to this summer's run-in with the Cambridge police, Harvard has now taken to developing its own meter to determine if in fact people are implicitly racist or sexist. Enter "Project Implicit...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: Project Implicitly Racist | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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