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...psychiatric care for a clinical condition prior to coming to Harvard should receive psychiatric services at the University Health Services Mental Health Service (MHS). My remark about “one-stop shopping” for most students should not be misconstrued as contradicting that viewpoint. Students may simultaneously avail themselves of different services at the Bureau and MHS, which share a collegial and collaborative relationship and regularly refer students to each other as appropriate...
...June 1899 a letter arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "I am an enthusiast but not a crank," wrote a bicycle-shop owner from Dayton, Ohio. "I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help." The letter was from Wilbur Wright, who, with his brother Orville, wanted to build an airplane. They began with kites and gliders, built their own wind tunnel and even recalculated long-accepted physics equations. Four years later on a blustery North Carolina beach, they succeeded where all others had failed. The longest flight...
Long before the Music Store came on the scene, frantic record-industry executives had been searching for some way to combat their nemesis: Napster, the original file-sharing service, but to no avail. Their first online ventures, MusicNet and PressPlay, were disasters, largely because the labels didn't trust their users--or one another. High subscription fees and poor selections turned off would-be customers; most skulked off to the underground services, such as Kazaa and Limewire, which had sprung up after Napster's demise...
...prices aren’t even that bad. At a mere $18 per undergraduate and $22 for other Harvard affiliates, even the University’s cheapest students will be able to afford a date. When tickets go on sale at noon today, we hope most Harvard undergraduates will avail themselves of this unfortunately rare opportunity—getting online, on the phone or to the Harvard Box Office to buy their tickets...
...might not have comforted a top diplomat of many other nations. The Saudis vowed to excise the objectionable portions, and Prince Saud insisted to TIME that "the books have been changed for the new school year." The U.S. embassy has asked for a rundown of changes but to no avail, according to Jordan. "We continue to have some concerns about the curriculum," he says...