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...although academics might categorize him as a social scientist, Summers is in the best position since chemist James B. Conant `14 to understand and push the cause of scientific research at Harvard...
...they did not feel support for their academic endeavors here. The University lacks professors for American colonial literature, the history of mathematics, German political thought, and French language and civilization. With the ensemble of an economist as University president, a computer scientist as dean of the College and a chemist as dean of the Faculty, the cynic may find grounds for long-term worries. Either way, this is a pressing problem facing the administration and all the necessary steps, from supporting departmental tenure decisions to making the money available for a new batch of professorships, must be met as those...
...technology and globalization. The Internet stood ready to revolutionize education and the world kept getting smaller. Harvard no longer was just an American university, it was a university for the world. Similarly, the disciplines of knowledge were becoming every more closely linked: Biologists now needed to work together with chemist, physicists and computer scientists. Reading, writing and arithmetic was no longer enough...
...always better. I think it's the carcinogens in barbecued meat that make it taste so good. What the world needs is rational thinking and cost-vs.-benefit analysis, not people like Carlson using her own fear and ignorance to beat conservatives over the head. I remember an old chemist's adage that there are no toxic compounds, only toxic levels. Pass the hamburgers, please. JOHN JAEGER Irvine, Calif...
...find seemed too amazing to be true. In fact, it was. Last month, after five months of chemical tests, microbial diagnosis, X-rays, radiocarbon dating and 200 C.T. scans, Pakistani experts concluded the mummy is a fake. "The mummified body is 100% modern," according to archaeological chemist Muhammad Toseef-ul-Hassan. What initially seemed to be one of the world's most intriguing archaeological discoveries is turning into one of Pakistan's strangest murder mysteries...