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Randall has influenced string theorists, who also claim that extra dimensions exist. String theory is a model of physics in which building blocks are one-dimensional objects called strings instead of zero-dimensional particles like electrons...
...have a pro-choice lobby at all. While the official student group Students for Choice claims to “promote greater awareness and understanding of [reproductive] issues in the Harvard community by means such as publications, meetings, seminars, and debates,” it would appear only to exist on facebook.com. No students have stepped forward to organize a response to Harvard Right to Life’s recent poster campaign or the graphic anti-abortion pamphlets that bombarded many student mailboxes earlier this fall. And no student groups promoted or even drew attention to a recent Planned Parenthood...
Khan groped his way down to the hospital. It was destroyed, hammered into countless pieces by the temblor. Meanwhile, thousands were converging in the street, carrying and dragging people with terrible injuries, searching for a hospital that had ceased to exist. Using about $200,000 of his own cash, Khan says, he bought all the medicine and bandages he could find, grabbed anyone who had first-aid training and set up a tent hospital to tend to the hordes of wounded staggering in. For the worst injured, he arranged a makeshift ambulance service to ferry them over the mountains...
...they will waste billions of dollars trying. To hedge their bets, they invest not in one malaria treatment, for example, but in many. And they try to stay flexible. After they were criticized for investing too heavily in new inventions, they put more money into distributing fixes that already exist. They also don't scare easily: when it was discovered that one kind of spermicide actually increased transmission of HIV, the foundation intentionally pumped millions into the study of other similar products to keep the momentum going...
...Caucus members declined to comment on whether the group will continue to exist on a more permanent or official basis. But there are several indications that the group will still to push for more influence, at least for the immediate future...