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...best intended federal regulations may infringe on the ability of colleges to educate their students” what they failed to mention is that as recently as 1997 Congress had amended the Higher Education Act to make student loan debt among the easiest and most lucrative to collect...
...five arms of the brittle star are covered by tiny lenses that, like transition sunglasses, are able to regulate their pigmentation in order to collect the right amount of light. Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scientist who is joining the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) faculty in July, is devising methods to apply the principles of the underwater animal’s superior lens system to man-made optics.“It is really stealing the principle from biology,” she says.Aizenberg, a 47-year-old mother of two who emigrated from Russia in 1991, comes...
...Harvard purchases such a system, it will have to collect cell phone numbers, something that has plagued text message alert structures at other schools...
...question of whether to require cell phone numbers for registration or simply collect them on a voluntary basis remains unanswered at many schools, according to Macomber...
...trips to Iraq, [Deputy Defense Secretary] Paul Wolfowitz told our senior man there, "You don't understand the policy of the U.S. government, and if you don't understand the policy, you are hardly in a position to collect the intelligence to help that policy succeed." It was an arrogant statement that masked a larger reality. In many cases we were not aware of what our own government was trying to do. The one thing we were certain of was that our warnings were falling on deaf ears...