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...Kong on Friday night, as a crew of Kirkland ladies jostled with townies in the upstairs room. Final tally: townies booted out, students stayed. Cambridge 0, Harvard KO...Rumor has it there was a fight in Lowell, though our sources tell us that rap music was the culprit...
...August, a team of scientists at Northwestern University were the first to show why the brain's "memory function" fails in the face of an insulin shortage. The group's prior research had already pinpointed the culprit: toxic proteins called amyloid beta-derived diffusible ligands (ADDLs, for short), which are known to pile up in the brains of people with Alzheimer's. Scientists also knew that Alzheimer's patients' brains have lower levels of insulin and are insulin resistant. But what the Northwestern team discovered is the molecular mechanism behind that resistance: when ADDLs bind to neurons at synapses, they...
...About a year ago, Harvard students were up in arms: someone was trying to take their liquor away. Back then, the culprit was the Boston Police Department, who had decided to turn the Harvard-Yale tailgate into a dry affair. The students’ indignation seemed a little misplaced. After all, the police’s responsibility is to enforce the law, and inconveniently, that law says no liquor under...
...book is very persuasive.The authors begin by describing the nature of America’s tremendous support of Israel before dissecting the strategic and moral arguments that defend such support, which they dismiss both as wrong and insufficient to explain its unusually unconditional nature.For them, the main culprit is the titular “Israel Lobby,” a largely decentralized collection of groups and individuals who believe that “the United States should give Israel substantial diplomatic, economic, and military support even when Israel takes actions the United States opposes” and who devote significant...
...sophomores buried in the heavy reading list of Social Studies 10a, it feels as if concentration choice has come early. (Social Studies is not the only culprit, just the most egregious; for example, Astronomy has a “strongly encouraged” full-year sophomore tutorial but, then again, it only has eight concentrators...