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...also glad that the administration has chosen to select the student representatives through their representative bodies, the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Graduate Council. These students will go in with a legitimacy as student representatives that no other feasible means of selection would confer. We believe that the strong interest and prior research of many PSLM members merit the inclusion of one of their number on the committee, and we would encourage SAC to keep this in mind as it makes its nominations...
...finals near. Regardless of how effective a learning environment Mass. Hall provides (protesters hanging out the windows, frequent chants and marches, etc.), the choice to “show support” by preventing students from suffering the consequences of their actions—using an ideological test to confer a pedagogical benefit—is clearly inappropriate. Professors may use their lectern as a soapbox, but not their grading sheet...
...fishing boat Ehime Maru on Feb. 9, an accident that killed nine of the people aboard that vessel. For Waddle, it has been two months of public humiliation and recrimination. Yet even after the Navy put him through a wringer of an inquiry, Navy men found a way to confer dignity on him. On Wednesday, Waddle had dressed in uniform and come out to the waters for a rendezvous...
Modern medicine has engaged disease-causing microbes in an escalating arms race, so that as soon as drug developers launch a new weapon--an antibiotic, for example--their microbial foes respond by shoring up their own defenses. Sometimes bacteria and parasites undergo random mutations that spontaneously confer resistance. More frequently, they acquire survival-enhancing characteristics in the process of exchanging DNA with other microbes that have already developed resistance...
...should speed up, thanks to the rapid sequencing of the genomes of disease-causing organisms. Among the latest conquests are the bacteria responsible for causing syphilis and leprosy. The genome of the parasite that causes malaria is also beginning to yield its secrets, including the exact genetic mutations that confer chloroquine resistance. Scientists are beginning to exploit what they know about the parasite's life cycle after it invades the red blood cells of the human body. Daniel Goldberg, a malaria researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Md., is trying to figure out how to block...