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When profits contribute to science, there is the grave risk that science will contribute to profits, excluding truth in favor of a more attractive approximation. This is not to say that ties to industry doom scientific endeavors to the service of economic interests or that Summers’ plans for Allston will harm biotechnology at Harvard. But the associations to be forged in this great expansion will require concrete structures of academic oversight, which the administration must create alongside the new facilities and research groups. Let’s stay on the synergy side...
...regrettable opinion does nothing more than maintain an anachronistic calendar. Even on a pragmatic level, keeping Fall Term’s exams after winter break will continue to ruin “vacations” of students with any conscientiousness about their studies. Unless we want to doom the legions of Harvard students to more years of having “time at home” meaning “time in front of the home computer” writing papers. And ending so late compared to other schools only serves to complicate our efforts to negiotiate summer...
...Maybe so, but a number of voices around Tokyo's Otemachi financial district remain worried. Although Japan Inc. is no doubt making progress on some structural-reform initiatives and investors are enjoying a respite from gloom and doom, many doubt whether all the ingredients are in place for a genuine, lasting recovery. "The weakness in the preceding year was hard to explain," says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING in Tokyo, "but a lot of people are trying to make this [rally] into something it isn't." Scratch beneath the surface on some of the headline-making numbers and Japan...
...They’re waiting for us in their cauldron of doom,” Kerr said. “They’re going to be a wounded animal, and the wounded animal might try and get out early...
...hitting errors combined with powerful Aztec hitting to doom the Crimson...