Word: fas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shuttleboy's creator, David J. Malan '99, wrote the program for his friends last fall, but the service soon gained campus-wide popularity. Available by typing "shuttleboy" or "sb" at the fas prompt in telnet, it lists the next three times different shuttle routes will pick up at points around campus...
Though the Shuttleboy program was accessible across campus, it resides only in Malan's personal account on the college's FAS servers. So, under the current arrangement, when Malan's affiliation with Harvard ends, shuttleboy will disappear...
...point that Harvard gave on," says one source close to the negotiations. "Harvard evidently hopes that Radcliffe will quickly see that they will do better if they join with FAS [the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] and send joint letters. Time will cure this...
Sources say total financial aid funds will not change as a result of the deal, as FAS will make up any shortfall in Radcliffe's financial aid contributions...
...More promise may lie in a sort of mimicry, studying the body?s own approach to fighting cells that go bad ? and Thursday saw some success on that front too. Publishing in Science magazine, a team from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have identified a protein, called Fas ligand, that they think is the body?s own treatment for skin cancer from within. You may know it as peeling. "The body?s traditional respose to mutation is ?You change, you die,?" says Gorman. "When a skin cell sustains enough sun damage to its DNA that it may turn...