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Recently, though, Harvard students have been taking one aspect of the dining hall system more seriously. As more and more schools convert to and utilize the advantages of variable meal plans, transferable credits and point systems, Harvard's mandatory 21-meal board contract has become a frequent topic of dinner discussion...
...hospitals are now routinely discharging AIDS patients after emergency treatment to make room for those who can be effectively treated. Doctors often have to make painful decisions. A case of bacterial pneumonia can be cured with $5 or $6 worth of drugs, for example, while cryptococcal meningitis, a frequent manifestation of AIDS infection in east Africa, costs $l,000 to treat -- and the patient is certain...
...researching his book, Taubes, who has a physics degree from Harvard and is a frequent contributor to DISCOVER magazine, talked with more than a hundred current and former Rubbia colleagues. Most of his interviews took place at Geneva's CERN laboratory, where, Taubes says, Rubbia almost single- handedly persuaded the directors to build the super proton synchrotron (SPS) accelerator used to discover the W and Z particles...
Treating students and alumni as a community rather than a subset of a grand institution greater than all of us has other implications as well. One of the most frequent complaints registered by students and faculty alike concerns what some describe as the cold, absolutist, individualist atmosphere of the University. Even Bok admitted in a recent speech his own disappointment with the lack of intellectual camaraderie among professors. students frequently view their experience as an expensive ticket to individual success rather than a personal reflection of themselves and those with whom they live and study. Without any enticement to recognize...
...frequent occurrence," said Cantor. "It's been at least ten years since this has happened. This is the first time since I came here...