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...five days last December, Zimbabwean officials jailed thesis researcher Amar C. Bakshi ’06 on charges of espionage. During his brush with authority, one thing he did not have to worry about was the safety of his interviewees.Long before, in Cambridge, Mass., Bakshi had worked with the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research, which reviewed his methods to make sure neither he nor his research subjects would be endangered.“When interrogated, I never divulged real names, and instead used the fictive names concocted beforehand,” said Bakshi...
...match that the Harvard wrestling team intended as a brush-up before Ivy League dual meets, American University brushed back the favored Crimson 26-13. Before Harvard (0-1), ranked No. 22 in the country at the start of the day, faced the Eagles (2-4) in Washington, D.C. in its first dual meet of the season, the team had already blended veteran dominance with its considerable freshman talent in several tournament successes. Yesterday, the Crimson struggled through a sluggish performance in the nation’s capital. “I don’t think we wrestled stupid...
...chances are that the discussions are lively in a Shakespeare course, so you can learn on the job without having to be a good teacher at the start,” Wilkinson said. “If you’re trying to get students to brush up on derivatives or covalent bonding and they are all pre-med, they don’t really care about covalent bonding and just want to get to medical school...
...necessarily the sweeteners in them that do it. Many over-the-counter remedies that contain antihistamines are slightly acidic in nature, and a new study showed that this acid can cause cavities in healthy tooth enamel. Fortunately, fluoride counteracts the problem, so make sure your children brush their teeth after swallowing cough syrup. Also try giving the medication with meals, when the body's natural production of saliva helps protect the teeth...
...Russian Ambassador to Canada, Georgiy Mamedov, attempted to brush off the allegations without directly denying them. "From my unenlightened position, this case is far from a slam dunk," he told CBC Newsworld. "I don't see anything that pins him to our door." Mamedov noted that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had recently rounded up 70 alleged Mafia kingpins and underlings in Montreal and speculated that Hampel might be a mobster. "We're not in the cold-war mode any longer, so I don't see any secrets that would be so important as to send some kind of illegal...