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Teen-oriented and casual-wear retailers, which had a slow start in November, were among the busiest over the Black Friday weekend. Companies such as Aeropostale, American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy were big winners, wrote Credit Suisse analyst Lejuez in a research note. Traffic to Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works was also strong, said Kimberly Greenberger, a managing director at Citigroup Global Markets...
...despite the relatively slow start for American stem-cell research, Rockefeller's Brivanlou is hopeful that the NIH approvals mark the beginning of a new era in our understanding of human development. "I consider it a shame that at the beginning of the 21st century, we know more about how development works in the worm, the fruit fly and the mouse than we know about our own development. And it's not because of scientific limitations or technological limitations," he says. "It would be nice if someday people are allowed to ask basic questions simply about where we come from...
...Allies will host a candlelight vigil in front of Memorial Church, illuminate a ribbon in front of Grays Hall, and hold a discussion on gay men’s health and Brazilian immigrants living in Boston in an event co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
Harvard professors are currently the highest paid in the country, according to a recent report by the American Association of University Professors, with an average salary of $192,600 per year. In the 2009 fiscal year, FAS spent $147.8 million on all faculty salaries, according to the Dean’s Annual Report...
...Tenderfoot” has a specific focus on technology and atomization of American culture. The title implies (and then laments) newbies in a world in which humans have become estranged by technological individualism and isolation. It’s both a diatribe and glorification of post-modernism. Damn, Lampoon. So deep...