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...uploaded every grade and vetted them for accuracy. But while students restlessly await their grades, freshman advisers will have access to their advisees’ grades immediately after they are uploaded, according to an e-mail from the Registrar obtained by The Crimson. The Crimson was not able to confirm if upperclassmen advisors were also granted the same advance access. Freshman advisors were asked not to disclose grades to their students until they are officially released. The e-mail said the advisers should “refrain from sharing grade information with [their] advisees until final grades have been confirmed...
...Clearly Hamas needs some time, and we're going to give them time-but not to do nothing," says an aide to Solana. "They have to confirm they're in touch with reality, namely that the Palestinians are totally dependent on financial support from outside, and that that aid in turn is linked to the peace process...
SNIFFING OUT TROUBLE Scientists at a small California clinic said last week they had trained dogs to confirm diagnoses of lung and breast cancer by sniffing patients' breath samples. Skeptical but intrigued, experts say it's not time to swap lab tests for Labradors...
...vigilance may hold the key to survival. Swedish researchers reported in the American Medical Association journal Archives of Internal Medicine that 650-750 people in northwest Vietnam admitted suffering flu-like illnesses after handling sick or dead chickens. While virologists say the study did not use blood tests to confirm the presence of h5n1, they think it could mean that some people may carry bird flu without getting sick. "It suggests more cases are not being picked up, and that the mortality rate is lower than the 50%" recorded by the who, says Oxford. That is not necessarily good news...
...sorry, in a meeting with the Standing Committee on Women that night in the Humanities Center. Through a window, the meeting appeared tense but not hostile. At one point there was even laughter. Several professors who attended the meeting declined to discuss what was said but did confirm that Summers apologized, with no qualifications. In a brief interview after the meeting, Summers said he had told the committee: “I made a big mistake, and I was wrong...