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Ayckbourn, whose father played violin for the London Symphony Orchestra and whose mother wrote novels, was influenced in his early years less by theater than by the triple bills of American B-movies that he would spend long afternoons watching. Even today he seems aloof from most of his British playwriting peers; he's friends with few of them, and the only dramatist with whom he professes a close affinity (personal and professional) is Harold Pinter, who directed him in an early production of The Birthday Party. "I got fascinated by his use of dialogue, his use of words...
When Harvard Medical School professor Gary B. Ruvkun started researching the development of roundworms 20 years ago, he had no idea that the tiny genes of their ribonucleic acid—DNA’s chemical cousin—would map out a new field of biology...
...chair of the African and African-American studies department, Evelyn B. Higginbotham, expressed similar sentiments...
...Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu
...Thousands of engineers and computer scientists arrive in America yearly to fuel high-tech businesses. Silicon Valley is filled with startups founded by immigrants, like Vinod Khosla’s Sun Microsystems and Sergey Brin’s Google. Astonishingly, Congress has actually reduced the number of special H1-B visas given to foreign workers, which allow American companies to import guest workers with highly specialized knowledge. As a result, many of these workers move to countries with more liberal immigration policies, like Canada and Australia. In these cases, America’s loss is another country?...