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...didn’t know we were in love, but that was only a small complication. When I saw her in the hallway, I would try to be charming; I would fail each time. But she was a person of tremendous forgiveness—I’m still grateful to her for this—and she would smile and maybe laugh and she would say something that would strike me as brilliant. I would cling to this encounter throughout the day like a sparrow to a bright-colored bit of string, and at night I would...
...annual report also revealed some of the financial plans for the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, a biomedical research center established jointly by Harvard and MIT to study the human genome.Both schools together will raise $20 million per year in gifts and non-federal grants. If fundraising efforts fail to meet the goal, Harvard will compensate MIT for the shortfall, the report states. Harvard’s will also pay $13 million initially to construct the institute’s new building.—Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...democratic revolution on Russia's borders. Lukashenko does that the old-fashioned way. Every corner of the 208,000-sq-km country comes under his iron fist. He personally appoints all officials from ministers and regional governors down to village store managers - who are fired or arrested if they fail to deliver. The Batska's authority does not rest on a monolithic party but on a personal ideology, such as it is, based on his own proclamations. A sample: "Private property has the right to exist, but it must be under the state's control." Lukashenko has decreed his views...
Voltage isn't fail-safe, nor does it claim to be. "If attackers spend a million dollars to break into a hospital, we can't prevent records from being stolen," says Appenzeller. But, he says, "we make it much harder for them to access private information digitally." E-mail and data protection is just a start. With growing concern about identity theft, Voltage is developing new methods for securing instant messaging and voice-over-Internet-protocol telephone calls...
...exact number of puppy mills is not known, since offenders often fail to register their operations with the government, as required by law. But hundreds of violations are reported each year. The horrific conditions found in some mills can cause health and behavioral defects ranging from genetic problems caused by overbreeding, such as hip dysplasia, to overaggressive play. "In order for a dog to be a normal dog, it needs to stay with its mother and littermates for a good eight to 10 weeks," says Carol Araneo-Mayer, co-founder of Adopt-A-Pet, a rescue group in Freehold...