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...initial online version of this story described the Allston plans released by the University as blueprints. Harvard has subsequently contacted The Crimson to clarify that the University, in fact, did not release photographic prints on blue backgrounds. The University did, however, release a detailed plan or program of action. See: blueprint...
...world we would be," says Fortinberry, "but we felt we had to make a choice between having kids and helping others." Of course it's easier to be a good parent in theory than in practice. But the authors' childlessness doesn't invalidate their points. Theirs seems a fine blueprint for a noble aim: to send out into the world more children equipped to find the beauty all around them...
Today, the New Orleans rebuilding commission will release an official blueprint report recommending a strategy for the revival of the city. Appointed by Mayor C. Ray Nagin, the commission will recommend that residents be allowed to return to the city and rebuild wherever they choose, regardless of how vulnerable or devastated the area. Following a 12-month period, those neighborhoods that have not sustained an undefined “critical mass” of inhabitants will likely be returned to marshland; those residents who have settled in the interim will be required to leave the region, costing the federal government...
...original paper in Nature. That piece of critical evidence comes from the animals' mitochondria, tiny energy-producing structures within each cell. While most of a mammal's DNA resides in the nucleus, there's also some in the mitochondria. (Nuclear DNA forms the animal's basic genetic blueprint; mitochondrial DNA contains instructions for making proteins involved in various metabolic functions within the cell...
Soon afterward, one of the foundation's advisers gave Bill a copy of a 1993 World Bank Development report. Today it reads like a blueprint for the Gates Foundation. Using just the kind of steely analysis that Bill loves, the 329-page document explained how many millions of people in poor countries die from diseases that already have cures. Then it listed the most cost-effective methods of preventing those deaths: from immunization to AIDS prevention to nutrition, all of which would become major investment areas for the foundation. Finally, he had found what every well-meaning billionaire wants...