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...Harvard student, leaving the library is a painful process, akin to that of the junkie saying goodbye to his final fix. But it used to be that the only obstacles between Lamont’s fluorescent corridors and a good night’s rest were that Ec midterm you hadn’t studied for or the English reading you hadn’t yet attempted. Now there’s also James Fasci, a recently hired Allied-Barton employee with a bold new vision for library security. Before Fasci, leaving Lamont meant passing bags and books through...
...lengthy and detailed categorization of “his little friends”—verbs—plods along, reading like a lecture in Linguistics 101. There are moving and changing verbs (brush, dribble, shake), verbs of having, knowing, and helping (bring, tell, fix), and verbs of acting, intending, and causing (march, come, kill). Verbs in their contexts determine a specific understanding of intention and situation, Pinker reminds us. After all, in English, “juice dripped from the peach” is different than “the peach was dripping with juice...
...film cameras that the other 10 students received. The move, according to teachers, may be controversial, but is necessary. “Before, you would conserve and put all your energy towards that one picture; and now, it’s like you take it, you see it, you fix it,” says Irina A. Rozovtsky, the teaching fellow for the class. She explains that there is no need for digital photography students to wait for negatives to come back, or to ever handle film. Because the digital students get instant feedback on their work, they...
Another answer may be to fix the blood that's on the shelves. Working with dogs, Stamler has shown that the heart-attack rate drops when depleted blood is replenished with liquid NO. Human premature babies born with underdeveloped lungs are already being exposed to gaseous NO to help their tissues get the oxygen they need. For now, the American Red Cross, which oversees the 14 million units of stored blood, is awaiting more studies before changing its processing and storage practices...
...Speaking Out If the developed world does not always do a good job of keeping itself well, health-care leaders there do understand that to fix the diseases you've got, you first have to talk about them. That is often not remotely the case elsewhere. In early September, Dr. Chiun-Sheng Huang, an oncologist at Taipei's National Taiwan University Hospital, examined a woman in her late 60s who had come to him for the first time. He discovered a tumor in her left breast so large that it had broken through her skin. She claimed she had first...