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...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION *Due to an editing error, the Feb. 1 news article, “Bush Promises Boost for Science,” misstated the size of a nanometer. It is a billionth of a meter, not a millionth...
...hard pill to swallow because I feel we’re as good as they are and we just don’t show it.” The third frame was yet another example of the Crimson’s untimely lethargic starts. With numerous errors early on, Harvard again found itself in a deficit, down 12-6. The team showed some flare to pull within three at 22-19 on a kill from senior Seamus McKiernan, who posted a double-double with 17 kills and 13 digs. On the whole, however, the team hit a meager...
...best player,” Crimson coach Chris Ridolfi said. “We need to find a way to get him the ball on a more consistent basis.”As a team, Harvard hit .600 in the third frame with sixteen kills and just one error, never trailing on its way to the 30-23 victory.The Crimson finally adjusted to its new responsibilities since the loss of setter Dave Fitz—who has been wearing a boot on his leg. Harvard notched 14 blocks, with seven from freshman Brady Weissbound, while sophomore Jordan Weitzen posted...
...that's changing, thanks largely to specialists such as Bergman and Shipon-Blum. Trained as an osteopathic family physician, Shipon-Blum had a pressing personal interest in the condition. Finding almost no good research on the subject, she had to resort to trial and error in order to help her daughter Sophie, now 11, overcome a paralyzing mutism. Today Shipon-Blum runs an SM clinic with a two-year waiting list and travels the U.S. speaking in hotel ballrooms packed with concerned parents, teachers and clinicians. She also founded the nonprofit Selective Mutism Group--Childhood Anxiety Network, which has become...
...panel at Seoul National University (S.N.U.) put it bluntly: "This kind of error is a grave act that damages the foundations of science." Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, South Korea's famous stem-cell researcher, had fallen from grace. An S.N.U. investigation into Hwang's groundbreaking experiments in human cloning found the nation's top scientist had faked the results of his greatest success. The scandal was a setback not only for the controversial field of embryonic-stem-cell research, but also for the image of scientists as disinterested practitioners pursuing knowledge and truth...