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...legal fight is far from a sure thing. Copyright laws are slippery and subjective--the judge in the Grokster case made a special plea in his ruling asking Congress to fix gaps in the laws that cover file sharing. Enforcing those laws is also tricky. Colleges, where a lot of the downloading goes on, like to think of themselves as bastions of privacy and free speech, not copyright police. The international reach of the Internet makes enforcement even dodgier. Case in point: in 1999 Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager, figured out how to break the copy protection on commercial DVDs...
Multiple strains would not be surprising. This bug's genetic code is based on RNA, a single-stranded molecule very similar to DNA. Unlike DNA, however, RNA has no built-in proofreading mechanism to fix mistakes in the replication process. Most of these don't amount to anything, but every once in a while an error may make the microbe more infectious. Beyond that, says Dr. Robert Webster, chief of virology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., "when a virus comes across to a new host, what does a virus do? It varies like crazy...
...turned over to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2005. The loss of the facility will devastate, if not undermine entirely, the survival of dance at Harvard. The University shamefully turned Reiman over before making alternative plans for dancers, and the College is now scrambling to fix the mistake. The future of theatre space is similarly uncertain. The renovation of the dilapidated Hasty Pudding Theater is stalled until a wealthy donor coughs up $23 million. The American Repertory Theater (ART)—the professional theater company that shares the Loeb Drama Center with undergraduates—is facing...
...sure, there is little that can be done to fix the fact that some of Harvard’s residential Houses are better than others. But it takes very little imagination to come up with several more equitable ways for Harvard to mitigate the intrinsic unfairness in distributing its housing...
...responded well to medication, beginning her freshman year at Harvard feeling optimistic. But come sophomore fall, things weren’t going quite as well. And despite Lawless’s positive past experience with treatment, she was reluctant to seek help. “I wanted to fix it myself,” she says, and is first to acknowledge the irony of that statement, coming from a psychology concentrator...