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...editing error, an earlier version of the subheadline for the Dec. 16 news article "Senior Fellow Leaves Board" incorrectly stated that James R. Houghton '58 would be leaving the Harvard Corporation after a six-year term. In fact, Houghton will have served on the corporation for nearly 15 years when he steps down this spring...
...upon REU by virtue of his own laziness, after the deadlines for finance and consulting internships had passed. He worked in an apartment, not an office, and he reported to his two supervising professors twice a week. “It’s a lot of trial and error,” said Brito. “It was frustrating and stressful, and some days you just don’t feel like doing the work. But it feels cool to have your name on a theorem...
...editing error, an earlier version of the Dec. 10 news article "Harvard Pauses Allston Construction" incorrectly stated that molecular and cellular biology faculty were displaced from the Northwest Science Building. In fact, these faculty members were forced to move from the Sherman-Fairchild building and into the Northwest Science Building...
...contend that Toyota may be imposing a fix without fully understanding the problem. "For years, Toyota Motor Corporation has dismissed complaints of sudden acceleration as being the driver's fault," says David Wright, a Redlands, Calif., attorney, who recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Toyota. "But neither driver error nor floor mats can explain away many other frightening instances of runaway Toyotas. Until the company acknowledges the real problem and fixes it, we worry that other preventable injuries and deaths will occur," Wright says. He contends that errant electrical signals may be triggering some of the sudden accelerations...
Pincus calls these the "golden mechanics." He learned them by trial and error, mainly while working on his two failed start-ups, Tribe.net and Supportsoft. He also has a behavioral psychologist on staff. Unlike traditional electronic games, which can't be changed much after they're shipped, Zynga's games constantly evolve in response to users' preferences, so they're more habit-forming. "They're making movies," he says of console-based-game creators. "What we're doing is more like weekly TV programming...