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...Hair of the Dog Alcohol-related illnesses can be difficult to treat and even harder to detect...
...less intelligent than whites. In 2001, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 speculated that the presence of black students was the cause of grade inflation at Harvard, and in 2002 law professor Alan M. Dershowitz conditionally endorsed torture by the Israeli and U.S. governments. Those who detect laziness and complacency in the Harvard Faculty willfully ignore the rigor of the University’s hiring process. Harvard assembles a staggering array of data and specialists’ opinions before conferring tenure, making it the most sought-after and demanding appointment in the academic world. It is therefore...
...frequency of things that don’t look like they’re happening,” Verba says. While technological advances have facilitated plagiarism through the arrival of the internet, he contends, it has also become easier to catch plagiarism with the use of search engines to detect copied works. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...With researchers from seven countries, Chapman and an Australian team are devising a new set of monitoring tools to better detect the presence of specific hormones in water. One of the criticisms of using recycled water for drinking is that it can't be tested for every possible contaminant. But Chapman says the Global Water Research Coalition project, due to be completed mid-next year, will make testing unnecessary. Rather than having to carry out hundreds of costly and time-consuming tests for contaminants and speculating on their possible effects, scientists using the "toolbox" will be able to take...
...treatment plants don't always operate within specifications. That's why we would say that an added barrier of putting it back through an environmental buffer is required," he says. "We need to be reasonably prudent and cautious-maybe there are some things in the water we can't detect...