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...entrance of the 40-year-old Inman Square resident, whose 2005 runner-up finish in the council race was his first entrance into elective politics, adds the first strong challenger to the current field of nine incumbents. All councillors are elected city-wide through a single ballot on which voters rank nine of the candidates running in their preferred order...
...libraries like he thought of supermarkets—he knew he needed what was on the shelves but had no idea how it got there. The same cannot be said of his successor, Robert C. Darnton ’60, whose prior expertise in the study of books field is a rare asset for a professor starting his term as director of the University Library.With volumes including “The Literary Underground of the Old Regime” and “The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France” to his name, Darnton brings strong academic...
WHERE DID LIFE BEGIN? AS rich as that question has been for scientists, at least one fact is not in dispute. While a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Stanley Miller masterminded the most famous experiment in the field. By fashioning a semblance of a young earth, oceans and all, Miller discovered that amino acids--key building blocks of life--could be generated from the chemicals presumed to have been present on the earliest earth. The experiment, results of which were published in 1953, helped launch the scientific study of the origin of life...
...Most notable of those are all-time Ivy League rusher Clifton Dawson and defensive tackle Mike Berg. But with freshman Cheng Ho tabbed to replace Dawson and a slew of returning talent on the defensive line, Harvard’s most notable recruits come on other areas of the field...
...strengths are my footwork, my accuracy and my leadership on the field,” Winters told Scout.com. “I’m the quiet-type leader, not a dictator...