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...drift in HMI’s mission—from an organization principally concerned with medical education and research to one focused on health-care delivery—began to draw heated criticism from University administrators. Leaders in Mass. Hall frowned on the sprawling nature of HMI’s operations, expressing concerns that the organization’s activities fell outside of the Medical School’s “core missions...
More enduring--for a while at least-- is the gender segregation that begins at this age. Boys and girls who once played in mixed groups at school begin to drift apart into single-sex camps, drawing social boundaries that will stay in place for years. In her 1986 study that is still cited today, Thorne looked at 802 elementary-school students from California and Massachusetts to determine just what goes on behind these gender fortifications and why they're established in the first place...
...head for the Quad. 3:13 AM—I’m standing at Boylston Gate, waiting for the welcoming yet disheartening “Reading Period” sign to radiate from an approaching shuttle. 3:28 AM—I think I just saw a tumbleweed drift down deserted Mass Ave (too much Oregon Trail?). I swear that the schedule said there was one at 3:15. 3:35 AM—I just saw lights on Mass Ave. It must finally be here! Wait, it’s not slowing down. What the hell!? I start...
...then Louise and your daughter Belinda were killed in Nepal in '75 - an airplane accident - it was of course hard to recover from that? Well, of course it was tremendously difficult. It changed everything. My life disappeared, and I did drift for a time. I didn't really believe that time would heal the loss. But after five or six years I found I was getting interested in some new things. Time did heal things. But things have always remained different...
...event itself, however, will have plenty of precedent. The craters that pock the surface of Mars, the Moon, Mercury and other Solar System bodies come from about four billion years' worth of this sort of thing. Earth has had plenty of collisions too; it's just that erosion, continental drift and vegetation have erased or hidden most of them. Not all, though: Meteor Crater, in Arizona, was blasted out some 50,000 years ago by an asteroid about the same size as 2007 WD5. A much bigger object, a few miles across, is thought by many scientists...