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...approval of the new concentration comes on the heels of the recent passage of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package—a boon for stem cell researchers who are now eligible for some of the $10.4 billion earmarked for the National Institutes of Health, typically a generous source of federal funding for biomedical researchers at Harvard...
...President Obama’s memorandum should also be a boon for Harvard’s stem cell initiatives, for it should stimulate our research programs. This excitement is somewhat attenuated, however in light of our university’s current science related woes. It is unfortunate that we have slowed construction of the science complex in Allston, which has pushed stem cell research into old laboratories unequipped for such advanced procedures. We have already begun to witness the fallout created by the Allston delay: a few prominent professors of Molecular and Cellular Biology, displaced by the recent changes, have...
...gallery, which also sells pieces by a highly unlikely mix of artists ranging from Pablo Picasso to Rosie O'Donnell, Stanley's presence was a boon. By the time the show closed on Saturday evening, roughly three dozen works of art had sold, including a $10,000 bronze sculpture to a longtime Wentworth client who had never before acquired a piece by the artist formerly known as Starchild. Despite prevailing concerns about the flaccid economy, it had been a very good day. Stanley, however, says the rewards are more than monetary. "I like the idea that the snobbism is taken...
...eliminate federal subsidies to farmers with sales revenues in excess of $500,000 per year and cap total individual subsidies for farmers at $250,000. Combined with other agricultural subsidy cuts, this would reduce farm subsidy expenditures by about $2 billion annually. This potential savings would be a boon for taxpayers. Furthermore, the inefficient subsidies currently create a price floor—a minimum price above market equilibrium—which artificially inflates prices, hurting American consumers...
...oversaw the Clinic, called the fellowship a “major step forward for the study of cyberlaw at Harvard Law School” and said the relationship with Cooley—“a leader in intellectual property law”—would be a boon for the Clinic. Current fellows have proven immensely helpful to students, according to Tom B. Sullivan, a student at the Law School, who worked at the clinic in 2008 and remains affiliated with the Berkman Center. Sullivan called his interactions with the fellows a “chance...