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Even if Tyson does not defect, Harvard may be a much stronger place as policy entrepreneurs return from Washington to resume the roles of teachers, researchers, administrators and scholars...
Recent events have brought to light a serious procedural defect in the internal policies of the Administrative Board's handling of disciplinary cases. The Administration has made it clear in the past that the Ad Board is not a judicial arm of the University, but should be considered educational in nature. To foster a sense of community and provide the proper scholarly atmosphere for a University, the Administrative Board has at its disposal an internal system of rules and punishments. As part of the Ad Board's standard policy, the nature and results of disciplinary cases arising based upon these...
...Bodine Aluminum, Lloyd still ruefully recalls the day the new Troy plant produced the first intake manifold to be rejected--after three months and 60,000 defect-free parts. The lapse "was immediately followed by an eight-hour meeting the next day," says Lloyd, who has had to adjust to the Japanese penchant for such talkathons. "Before, if I wanted to do X, I could do X," Lloyd says, "but now we have to meet for three days. They want everyone to be on board." Bodine has cut its initial reject rate from 20% to less than 2%. Even better...
...example, explains Caskey, researchers know that there are at least three or four forms of Alzheimer's disease, each of which may be caused by a different defective gene. "If I develop a drug for gene A," he says, "it may not have any influence on a patient who has a defect on gene C. So it's easy to understand how genomics research would be critical to the development of very precise and effective drugs...
...strategies pharmaceutical firms are using in drug development for genetic disorders vary widely. If the gene defect results in a protein that does not function, says Myriad's Skolnick, "you would try to replace that function by introducing a correct version of the protein into the body. Or you would try to mimic the function of the missing protein with a synthetic compound...