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Toomey said Harvard was one of the organizations that had responded to the call to arms by Lyme, and had written a letter to the Council objecting to the amendments...
Elisa F. New, a University of Pennsylvania English professor, was first introduced to the work of Porter University Professor Helen Vendler as a first-year at Brandeis University. Years after her days as an undergraduate, New will soon be able to call Vendler a colleague, having recently accepted a position as tenured professor in the Harvard English Department...
...Call it the sidekick theory of history: the idea that behind every famous individual was an unsung, exceptional assistant whose aid and support guaranteed his or her chief's success. In the case of Charles Darwin, the invaluable aide-de-camp may have been one Syms Covington, an obscure British sailor who, though he's barely mentioned in Darwin's writings, toiled at his side throughout his early career, bagging the vast array of specimens upon which Darwin founded his theory of natural selection. Now, in Australian novelist Roger McDonald's Mr. Darwin's Shooter (Atlantic Monthly Press; 365 pages...
CELL FORWARDING It's one of the reasons cell-phone users give out their numbers to only a select few: they have to pay for every incoming call. But last week William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged support for a more traditional system, in which the person dialing foots the entire bill. For the moment, though, wireless callers can save with bundled digital plans from AirTouch or Sprint PCS, which don't charge for the first incoming minute, and with Nextel, which charges by the second rather than rounding up to the next minute like most other...
...late 1997 Ballard, now a multimillionaire, retired as chairman of his company, but he's confident that his successors can fulfill his vision. He has already turned many doubters into believers. Science colleagues who were once "embarrassed to be seen with me at professional symposia," he says, now call upon him to give speeches. "Be impatient," he counseled students at British Columbia's University of Victoria as he accepted an honorary degree last year. "Challenge the normal. Dare to be in a hurry to change things for the better...