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...that has eluded them for more than two decades. "Having this signal - even if it's weak and even if we're debating whether it's a real signal or not - is a source of great hope," said Nicole Frahm, an HIV specialist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, while attending the annual AIDS vaccine conference in Paris this week. "Up until now, we've had nothing. This holds the promise of a start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIDS Vaccine: Modest Results, but a Sign of Hope | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...just going to fix climate change (or any other major environmental issue) in a lab. Yet as I flipped through the Courses of Instruction that sophomore fall, I began to wonder whether I could pursue environmental studies here at all without spending the next few years in the Science Center. Harvard College’s environmental concentrations and courses were then, and still are, overwhelmingly scientific. Even this year, as “Green is the New Crimson” banners fly high, the University Center for the Environment’s guide to environmental studies lists fewer than...

Author: By Zachary C.M. Arnold, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sustainability Beyond the Lab | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...white person of nearly identical social status and wealth are treated the same way by society. The answer to this question is seen all around us in very tangible forms, from reports of spikes in racial animus toward the president, as documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, to reports of continued racial discrimination in the workplace...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DISSENT: Affirmative Action | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...Professor Richard will work together with others in the department, and in neighboring departments such as Linguistics, to bring Harvard to pre-eminence in philosophy of language,” Kelly said. “For at least the past 50 years, philosophy of language has been at the center of English speaking philosophy...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tufts Prof. To Join Philosophy Department | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...Benedict's agenda. Recently, that defense of the church's values has been looking almost like a counteroffensive. On Oct. 17 in Spain, the traditionally Catholic right turned out perhaps as many as 1 million people in the streets of Madrid to oppose plans by the country's center-left government to loosen abortion laws (allowing 16-year-old females, for example, to terminate their pregnancies without parental consent). And on Tuesday, in a Vatican meeting with the new European Union envoy to the Holy See, Benedict chided those who deny the "Christian roots" of Europe. Said the Pope: "Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope to Unhappy Anglicans: Come On In! | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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