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...American universities grew by 200,000. In part, this owes to an expanding demographic, Generation Y. Combined with better recruiting by colleges and programs such as the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), winning a spot at Harvard (or Yale or any other top college) has become a considerable feat. The cause of Harvard’s intellectual decline in this period of hyper-competitiveness is two-pronged: It has to do with the transformation of the college student makeup, as well as the growing college preparatory hysteria...
...against highly touted Alex Lacroix of Florida. In addition, seven Crimson players traveled to Dartmouth’s Big Green Invitational, where they stole the show from the home team. According to coach Dave Fish ’72, Harvard won all its match tiebreakers, a rare feat indicating that these players, who usually play toward the bottom of the Crimson rotation, thrive under pressure.Freshmen Alexei Chijoff-Evans and Aba Omodele-Lucien cruised to the championship in the A doubles bracket.The B singles championship to be held today will feature two Harvard freshmen, Will Guzick and Tim Wu. Sophomore Michael...
...satire that juxtaposes politics and bathroom humor. In drama, this divisive subject matter must be carefully presented in order to provoke laughter instead of offense. The script, written by Chicago artists Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis, and its production by the Adams House Drama Society manage this feat with an absurdist mix of bald honesty and self-deprecating asides...
...most cases, that cell comes right from whatever organ is ailing, and, in the ultimate feat of personalized medicine, from the ailing organ of the patient himself. Furthest along in development are regenerated human bladders, which are already being tested in early human trials and which Atala has thoughtfully designed in small, medium and large sizes. Not far behind on the organ assembly line are heart valves and blood vessels. Atala began with the bladder not only because of his training as a pediatric urologist, but also because bladder cells are among the many that can be grown outside...
...always thought of my parents as reasonable, level-headed Midwesterners. They saved their spare change for rainy days, didn’t get too incensed about politics, and even helped our neighbors out with the two-foot dumps of snow that make surviving Minnesotan winters a Herculean feat. They were far too sensible to fall for deceitful scams and Ponzi schemes–or so I had thought...