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...development of new commercial drugs, such as potent painkillers that are administered to patients who do not respond to morphine. Director of the Foundation Dr. S. Allen Counter, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, said Olivera’s work has the potential to “explain some behaviors...[and] help us treat and cure many diseases.” Marlowe A. Rillera ’09, co-president of the Harvard Philippine Forum, called the award “a symbol that Filipinos are getting out there and making a difference in the world...
Week after week, we pledge to provide you with the best writing, the best reporting, the best thinking and the best pictures. And we will present it all in TIME's distinctive way. "Names make news," said Luce, and we'll continue to explain the world to you through the people who make a difference. To paraphrase the poet Ezra Pound's definition of literature, we're in the business of news that stays news...
...Board of Freshman Advisers plan, which proposed having proctors and non-residential advisers continue to counsel their students into sophomore year.A tally vote from that meeting shows that all members supported the Board of Freshman Advisers option over the House tutors option, the plan ultimately selected. Rinere later explained that the tally results were in response to a question asking committee members which model they would choose if able to start the advising system from scratch.“Often students feel like going to an adviser is like going to a doctor,” she said...
...aware of anyone lobbying" for the appointment of Tim Griffin as U.S. Attorney in Arkansas. Schumer then referred to a Dec. 19, 2006 e-mail by former Justice Department chief of staff Kyle Sampson saying that getting Griffin "appointed was important to Harriet, Karl, etc." Schumer asked Bush to "explain any involvement of Karl Rove or members of his staff in the decision to request the resignation" of the U.S. attorney Griffin was to replace...
...both physics and theology. He gives an insightful account of the patterns in each field’s acquisition of knowledge. Polkinghorne culminates with a discussion of both fields’ quest for the “General Unified Theory,” the theory that will cohesively explain everything, without loose ends or aberrations. Though physics and theology are on equal footing in most of the book, in the conclusion the Anglican priest trumps the theoretical physicist.Polkinghorne rejects the possibility of science providing a complete “Theory of Everything,” saying...