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Give credit to Neil Rudenstine for many great accomplishments. But the biggest challenge for him lies ahead. He can, and I hope will, prove himself to be a truly great president of Harvard if he takes a stand for openness and due process by seeking justice for Peter Berkowitz and reforming the tenure process for all those who follow. CHARLES R. NESSON Jan. 5, 1999 The writer is Weld Professor of Law 13/01/1999 Sports Wire...
...biggest adjustment for a high school athlete continuing her athletic career in college is the intensity."Practices are very intense, and they don't call so many fouls, so you really get pushed around and are forced to play physical," Ryba said...
...biggest problem with patenting genes is that while scientists have at least a general idea of what specific strands of genetic coding do, often it's just that--general. Investigators do sometimes succeed in isolating a single, crisp gene with a single known function. Often, however, researchers trying to map genes get no further than marking off fragmentary stretches of DNA that may be thousands of bases in length. These so-called expressed sequence tags may have real genetic information embedded in them, but determining where those nuggets are and what their structure is takes more digging...
That scenario is not as farfetched as it sounds. Talk to anyone in the pharmaceutical industry, and you'll soon discover that genetics is the biggest thing to hit drug research since a penicillium mold floated into Alexander Fleming's petri dish. Sure, scientists have long known genes play a role in almost every ailment from Alzheimer's to yellow fever. But it is only in the past few years that they've learned how to use that information to identify a multitude of new targets and pathways for drug design. Let's count the ways...
Forget the freakish growth spurts of Amazon.com and Ebay -? the weirdest Internet stock of the moment is Broadcast.com. Even as a newborn the stock showed promise, setting a record for the biggest single-day gain of an IPO when it went public last July. When some of the froth settled back then, the CEO confidently said that he wanted the people who bought at the top on the first day to feel that they'd made a great investment. Boy, did they. MORE...