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...suggested framework for general education will provide undergraduates with far greater ownership over shaping their academic experience and the opportunity to create a personalized curriculum drawing classes from the entire course catalog. But with fewer requirements to ensure breadth of study, that physics concentrator risks missing out on many areas of the academic spectrum normally afforded by a liberal arts education...
...paintings and sculptures, often of Native American women, were hugely popular in the 1970s and '80s, drawing such fans as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Andy Warhol and appearing in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which put one of his works on the cover of a catalog for a 1973 exhibition...
Many think apparel manufacturers are zeroing in on this market because of the success of Chico's, a specialty retailer based in Fort Myers, Fla., that started in 1983 as a folk-art shop. Chico's operates more than 500 stores in the U.S. in addition to a catalog business. The company's profits have grown for nine consecutive years, and sales surged 34.6% in the second quarter of this year, to $343 million. "Because of that growth, every company and their mother is trying to get into selling a line of clothing to women in their...
...this practical cohabitation brings about a catalog of ethical puzzles. What is the proper protocol in such circumstances? Is it appropriate to ask your neighbors to turn down the music, or stop having loud sex against the wall? Do you complain, or do you put on your headphones, crank up your iTunes and sulk? Is it polite to giggle about your neighbors’ private lives with your friends in the dining hall (and then write about it in the student newspaper)? At what point are you no longer a neighbor, but a voyeur...
...international team of researchers including Harvard scientists published last week a catalog of common human genetic variants—known as the HapMap—that they hope will lead to a better understanding of the causes of genetically-based diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder. Harvard researchers from the Broad Institute joined a team of 200 researchers in six nations to complete the $138 million project. Findings from the HapMap, compiled by analyzing genetic data from four ethnic groups—Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, and the Yoruba of Nigeria—were published in last week?...