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Larsen Professor of Public Policy Christopher N. Avery ’88 discussed early admissions policy and its effect on Harvard’s future at an intimate discussion with about 20 people yesterday evening. Avery, the co-author of “The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite,” praised former University President Lawrence H. Summers for overseeing the creation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 for helping end the College’s Early Action program last September...
Bruce Grierson is the author of U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life...
Einstein's exposure to science and math produced a sudden transformation at age 12, just as he would have been readying for a bar mitzvah. He suddenly gave up Judaism. That decision does not appear to have been drawn from Bernstein's books because the author made clear he saw no contradiction between science and religion. As he put it, "The religious inclination lies in the dim consciousness that dwells in humans that all nature, including the humans in it, is in no way an accidental game, but a work of lawfulness that there is a fundamental cause...
...author, University of Kansas professor Koleman Strumpf, analyzed the sales of albums released on European school holidays, when they were more likely to be available on global file-sharing networks...
...women taking daily vitamin supplements. “Multivitamins are already being used for many HIV-positive women, and with the findings we have from HIV-negative women, we hope such supplements will be made available to all women,” said the study’s lead author, Wafaie W. Fawzi, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), more than 20 million children are born each year with low birth weight, and 96 percent of the afflicted infants are born...