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...Computer Science I.” CS 50 student Or Gadish ’10 created a program for his first problem set that enables students to put earrings, masks, and gaudy makeup on the course instructor, David J. Malan ’99. Friends want Gadish to expand the program to other professors, like Economics guru Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw. “I’m definitely considering it,” Gadish says. His program was made using Scratch, a computer programming language designed for children that Malan chose to ease students into computer...
...over 25 years, according to former Harvard Medical School (HMS) Dean Joseph B. Martin’s 2005 Commencement address. Jules L. Dienstag, the dean for medical education at HMS, said that the school will keep its class size at 165 and does not have the capacity to expand. “The mission of HMS is to train leaders in medicine, and our traditional classes, even if expanded slightly, would not contribute perceptibly to reducing the physician shortage,” Dienstag said. He emphasized alternative strategies for coping with the shortage, including the training of more nurse practitioners...
...without promoting social equality. "A large body of economic thinking suggests that the widening of inequality is one of the inevitable by-products of rapid economic growth in developing countries," he writes. "There is no universal consensus on this, but if inequality really does tend to widen as economies expand, then we had better hope that it is not the principal reason we're so violent. Because it isn't going to get better soon...
...what I can tell, VoteGopher looks like it’s aimed at covering the substantive issues rather than the politics, and that seems like a useful thing,” Reynolds said. As the election progresses, the VoteGopher staff will update the candidate profiles and are looking to expand coverage to other state and national elections as well...
...anti-immigrant stance that the party's ranks have soared; the SVP has nearly doubled its members of parliament since 1995, from 29 to 55 this year. That number could increase further after Sunday. Its opponents say the party has exploited raw Swiss fear of foreigners in order to expand its support. "This election is a competition between right and left," says Georg Kreis, president of the Federal Commission against Racism. "Foreigners are used as a scapegoat...