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...said he is the type of Harvard student who shops fifteen courses during the first week of the semester, and then has no idea what to take. This year, he dropped into his adviser’s office at the end of shopping period. Professor of Philosophy Edward J. Hall asked the graduate student in his office to come back another time, and immediately sat down with Wong for two-and-a-half hours to discuss his course selection.“He basically wrote all my possible courses on the board and made sense of them...
...fruit flies could talk, that's probably how they would call bouts in the Fruit Fly Fight Club in Edward Kravitz's lab at Harvard University. Kravitz, a neurobiologist, has been pitting fruit flies against one another for decades and has painstakingly videotaped thousands of hours of fruit-fly fistfights (yes, they get up on their hind legs and brawl) in an effort to better understand aggression - not only in the insects but possibly in humans as well. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Edward Green, the director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project and senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, drew attention last week when he agreed with Pope Benedict XVI’s statement that the answer to the African AIDS crisis lies in the promotion of faithful partnerships rather than increasing the availability of condoms. “I knew that if I agreed with anything the Pope said it would cause a fire-storm,” said Green. “I took the opportunity to cause an uproar and focus on the evidence...
...fashioning health-care-reform legislation. And the two Democrats who had been expected to spearhead that task have been sidelined. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination to be Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services in early February amid revelations of tax problems, and Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Health Committee, has had to work behind the scenes as he battles brain cancer...
...Distract them with a big, shiny new toy If Geithner had testified before the same committee last week - as AIG CEO Edward Liddy did - he likely would've been eviscerated. Many of the "questions" for Liddy from both sides of the aisle turned into frustrated rants about how Geithner was botching his job and why the Treasury only just found out about the bonus payments. This week, though, Geithner was saved, in part, by the introduction Monday of the long-awaited details of his plan to get credit flowing again. Unlike his first stab at a rollout, this scheme...