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...junior faculty member to be nominated for tenure by the Sociology Department in more than a decade. It turns out that that’s not enough at Harvard, which rejected his application last month. Another star, Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, recently met the same fate. These two are only the latest in a long string of highly qualified junior faculty members who were unable to meet the inordinately exacting standards of Harvard’s tenure review process. Harvard is famous for sending away even the most promising junior faculty to make their names elsewhere...
...years ago, Home Depot started to think about its own improvement. Facing slow growth and fierce competition, the largest retailer of home-improvement products needed to reverse its potential fate in the tough business climate. Enter Peter Arnell, the advertising guru and product designer who has developed an unprecedented relationship with the home-goods superpower. This fall Arnell and Home Depot will unveil Orange Works, a line of innovative products for all facets of the home. In collaborative laboratories, Arnell and his team examine a design problem and test-drive ways to fix it. Their first product, the Home Hero...
Trouble was, everyone else seemed to be rooting for those teams also. It was difficult to find many people who cared much about the fate of the Stars and Stripes, or could name more than two players on the squad. The competition became a creepy meritocracy in which students supported the most exciting, talented, and glamorous teams. (Which is to say, not the United States...
...amount of previous research into nerve diseases such as Lou Gehrig’s has focused primarily on neurons as a source of disease, but the researchers cite their results as proof that non-neuron cells merit serious investigation. “Can you imagine what would be the fate of an individual that grew up in a bad neighborhood?” said Columbia researcher Serge Przedborski, drawing a parallel between crime-ridden areas and cellular environments. “What we found was that in fact, those normal motor neurons were dying due to the aspect of being...
...That showed me a lot, especially for a freshman,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. “He was keeping them off balance with the changeup all day.” Yale’s No. 4 and No. 5 hitters suffered the same fate as Lavarnway. Using his fastball and breaking ball to get get ahead in the count, and then going back to the changeup for the finish, Perlman sent first baseman Marc Sawyer back to the bench swinging and then caught third baseman Pedro Obregon staring to strike...