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...with liberal historiography often goes another sentiment--that today's students are somehow at fault for not taking to the streets, that the persistence of various oppressions suggests the need for similar militancy, and, perhaps even occupations. On the national level, protest certainly remains an effective tool for drawing attention and, occasionally, sparking reform. That President Reagan had to delay some of his planned draconian cuts in student aid certainly stems in part from the mobilized student response to his austere budget proposals...
...team first constructed an artificial gene that could replace the instructions of a faulty gene subunit that was causing beta thalassemia. When frog egg cells were then injected with both the man-made instructor and the defective genetic material, the fault was corrected. The successful experiment, published in the British journal Nature, marks the first reported time an artificially constructed gene has been successfully used to correct a human genetic defect...
...character-a tragic symbol of one of the most triumphant yet melancholy periods in U.S. history. He would have made an ideal subject for an American TV network, but it is just as well that none of them has told his story, for it is hard to find much fault with this seven-part series from...
...THESE conclusions will be too grand to filter down into concrete good, so Bok's approach to the issues that confront him as an educator is too broad. He should be commended for concerning himself with such a pressing topic as financial aid, and it is difficult to find fault with much of the logic that characterizes his annual report. But, in the long run. Bok's words will serve only to clarify that the president of Harvard likes the idea of federal aid to students--in general. Aside from a few loose suggestions for the feds to consider...
What may well be at fault in this confusion is the great reverence the Harvard administration holds the case-by-case method of adjudication. All that disabled students now have that they can bank on is a promise that administrators will do their best. As Kronick says, "It's not going to help us to have them say they've done their best. If they don't move a class, you can't take...