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...Imperfect Birds (Riverhead; 278 pages), functions in reverse, suggesting all the terror of the big picture. It's about Elizabeth and James, liberal do-gooders from Marin County, California (and the subjects of her previous novels Rosie and Crooked Little Heart), and their daughter Rosie. At 17, Rosie is "black-haired, strapping and fabulous" and an academic high achiever, but she does every drug under the sun, including her peers' parentally dispensed Adderall. The book is a stark illustration of deception, denial and parents' desperate desire to stay loved. You emerge from its last bittersweet pages ready to drug-test...
...selection of the first Asian American to the Corporation marks a milestone in the governing body’s history, and Lee’s appointment comes 10 years after the Corporation selected its first black member, Conrad K. Harper...
...researchers are also exploring the capabilities and limitations of black silicon, while Mazur’s company SiOnyx is working on prototypes of practical applications of the material...
...Harvard researchers had discovered black silicon by accident while Mazur was researching the properties of platinum and semi-conductors. Mazur had arbitrarily chosen silicon to study—a random vial of sulfur later, black silicon was born...
Student Life Committee Chair Senan Ebrahim ’12 says that the site has earned positive feedback from all the student groups he has been in contact with, including the Institute of Politics, the Chinese Student Association, the Harvard Opportunes, the Society of Arab Students, the Harvard Black Student Association, and multiple PBHA program directors...