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...that question, and that those disparities are fascinating in themselves,” she wrote.The proposal drew significant concern from some Faculty members at yesterday’s meeting.Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Susan R. Suleiman told the Faculty that the newly-proposed area was far too broad.“If the aim of a liberal arts education is not to, among other things, teach us what it means to be human, then I don’t know what it is,” she said, adding that students should be required to take two courses...
...BROAD THEMES?...
...vaccines are working and also to develop new vaccines,” Wirth said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop on her study’s results. Wirth’s study—conducted in conjunction with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal—discovered almost 47,000 differences among the genes of the parasite in Africa, Asia, and South America. This genetic variation gives Plasmodium falciparum the ability to overcome vaccines and other treatments for malaria, allowing...
Take the journey of the bacterium that caused all the trouble, Vibrio cholerae. From its source in the Ganges. Jones follows its progress to Broad Street and beyond, to the megacities of today's developing world via some illuminating detours. He details, for example, how the human body's adaptability to alcohol, a pretty good option when clean water is hard to find, became a genetic advantage and helped drive urbanization...
...Starbucks drive-through is lately being reinvented. Some changes boost efficiency (an order-confirmation screen reduces errors), but plenty of the redesign is aesthetic. Neatly landscaped hedges and big drawings of coffee pots funnel you through a chute that takes you round to the pickup window, which is broad and deep and designed to visually draw you into the store...