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...senior tutor's job...is a three quarter time job at a half-time salary," says Winthrop House senior tutor Gregory Mobley. "A lot of being a senior tutor is having your ear to the ground, being present, preventing problems from turning into crises...
DIED. TERRY SOUTHERN, 71, novelist and screenwriter; of respiratory failure; in New York City. More than that of any other artist in any genre, Southern's film work defined the '60s sensibility. His script for 1964's Dr. Strangelove, co-written with director Stanley Kubrick, showed an unerring ear for atomic-age Orwellianisms ("You can't fight here," cries President Muffley. "This is the War Room!"). The script won Southern an Oscar nomination, as did his work on another definitive film, Easy Rider...
Green pointed to an incident at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital about 10 years ago as the "touchstone" for the committee, illustrating exactly what members hoped Harvard could avoid...
...defects by reconstructing missing organs with synthetic materials or transplanting tissue from other humans or animals, a procedure that carries the risk that the body will reject the implant. The idea behind tissue engineering is to trick the body into regenerating its missing parts. The mouse with the extra ear was created by scientists at the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T. to prove that the basic technology can work. In practice, humans would grow their own tissue, without the help of mice...
...make the mouse's third ear, scientists fashioned a precision mold out of porous, biodegradable polymer, seeded it with human cartilage cells, then tucked the structure under the skin of a mouse bred without an immune system (to prevent rejection). Nourished by mouse blood, the cartilage cells multiplied, taking the shape of the dissolving polymer scaffold and creating a perfectly formed human ear...