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...editors: Reasonable people can differ about whether the so-called “foyer of Sanders Theater” truly has “lackluster ambience,” as stated in a recent Crimson article (“Is the New Fly-by Taking Off?” news, October 4, 2006). For many other visitors since 1874, the Memorial Hall transept has been a place of moving beauty. What is unarguable is that it was never meant to be a fast-food eatery. It was and is Harvard’s memorial to the 136 Harvard affiliates...
...true that tutors were usually young graduates. But they differ from today’s residential tutors in these those tutors were thought qualified to teach a degree as soon as they had completed it. Age also didn’t matter when it came to a tutor’s moral duty, which was to guide students through not only appropriate intellectual but spiritual development...
...says Colleen L. Lenahan ’10 of the Yard’s H2O. “I drink bottled water for sure.” But Stephen S. “Sam” Corda, the managing director of the Cambridge Water Department, begs to differ. “I think it’s very good,” says Corda of that not-so-dirty water. “I drink it every day.” While Corda is perhaps a biased source, he claims that he’s not the only...
...largely overshadowed by the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the same week, the publication of a rough draft of the chimp genome in the journal Nature immediately told scientists several important things. First, they learned that overall, the sequences of base pairs that make up both species' genomes differ by 1.23%--a ringing confirmation of the 1970s estimates--and that the most striking divergence between them occurs, intriguingly, in the Y chromosome, present only in males. And when they compared the two species' proteins--the large molecules that cells construct according to blueprints embedded in the genes--they found...
...Neanderthal genome. And he says he has 4 million more in the bag. Rubin, meanwhile, is also poised to publish his results, but refuses to divulge specifics. "Pbo's team has significantly more of a sequence than we do," he says. "Some of the dates will differ, but the conclusions are largely similar...