Word: cropped
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With this year’s crop of new professors, Harvard has made small steps toward the goal of granting tenure to younger scholars and those who do interdisciplinary work...
...crop of talented freshmen? Check...
...Bookman said. “And that’s a sign of a young and inexperienced team. The leap from high school to Division I college volleyball is enormous. The game is much faster, so it is normal to expect those kinds of weaknesses to crop...
...require more fundamental changes to the Harvard culture. Advising is particularly problematic. The solution will not simply involve changing the locus of the adviser (from the House to the concentration, for instance), and certainly nothing will improve if a greater number of adviser meetings are mandated with the current crop of often unmotivated, unknowledgeable and uninspiring graduate students. A concerted effort must be made to encourage the entire Harvard Faculty to share in what should not be considered a burden, but an opportunity to direct and focus the leaders of the future...
...proposed rules are not satisfying the critics or slowing the biopharmers. Open-air trials of pharmaceutical crops have taken place in 14 states, from Hawaii to Maryland. A Texas firm is selling a corn-bred enzyme that stimulates insulin production in diabetics. Clinical trials have begun for experimental crop-grown drugs to treat cystic fibrosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and hepatitis B. "Molecular farming represents the pharmaceutical industry's best opportunity to strike a serious blow against such global diseases as AIDS, Alzheimer's and cancer," says Francois Arcand, president of the Conference on Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals, held in Quebec...