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...completely disagree with the chart that deems Monster below respectable. Following Automatic for the People, R.E.M. ran the risk of falling into a rut. After two similar-sounding albums, what would its members do next? Their willingness to completely change their sound from mandolins to gutsy electric guitar helped establish R.E.M. as a group not afraid to challenge expectations. It is good to see in their new album that they are willing to do it again. Henry Rosenberg, South Windsor, Connecticut...
...hundreds of children battling cancer, oncologist Charlotte Tan was a reason for hope. Her ceaseless work developing drug therapies over more than 40 years at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center helped establish alternative ways to treat illnesses ranging from leukemia to Hodgkin's disease and bone cancer. In one of her many lasting contributions to the field of oncology, Tan collaborated with Dr. Herbert Oettgen and others to discover that the enzyme L-asparaginase could be used to target and starve tumors in cancer patients...
...group will also establish a scholarship fund named after Harvard Professor of History and African American studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham...
...million dollars are devoted to education, and at the request of the Task Force, Harvard has agreed to build and maintain a 3,400 square foot “Edu-portal” to house programs for school-age children attending local schools. More recently, Harvard said it will establish the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, which will allocate half a million dollars in grants over the next five years to neighborhood improvement, health, and education initiatives. But Mattison said he was still unimpressed with Harvard’s efforts to work with the community, citing the Charlesview relocation project?...
...enforcement practices can be improved. Ruggie, a professor of international relations at the Kennedy School and a Harvard Law School affiliate, has held the position of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights since 2005. At the UN, he helped establish the UN Global Compact, an initiative to engage the private sector in promoting human rights, labor, environmental, and anti-corruption standards. The Global Compact is now the largest initiative of its type, Ruggie said, with a membership of over 4000 companies around the world. However, Ruggie said he?...