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...writing in response to “Moving Beyond ‘The Three Lies’” by Luke Smith (Editor’s Notebook, Oct. 23) to clarify the Crimson Key Society’s function and operations with respect to its tours of the Harvard campus. Prospective students do not receive, as Smith charges, a “thoroughly useless Harvard history lesson.” They enjoy a comprehensive and candid discussion of academic, residential, extracurricular and social life at the College. The sprinkling of historical anecdotes serves to enrich and enliven an essentially...
...attempt to find out the exact function of the channel, Clapham and his group tried to insert the gene into mammalian cells that grow in dishes. These efforts failed, implying that the CatSper protein requires other proteins or “subunits” to make it work...
...this is the purpose of a liberal education, what is the reality? If one is right in arguing that the function of a university is to provide sanctuary, how safe is the haven? Judging by the increasing overlap between pre-professionalism and undergraduate education, the answer seems more and more often to be, not very. Instead of providing a haven from the Real World, institutions of higher learning are increasingly pathways...
...during flight is important, but further steps are necessary. The airlines are divided on how best to approach them. "There are lots of security issues," says one big carrier source, "But first we need to get rid of incompetent screeners. That's why the federal government should take that function over." Mesa's Ornstein counters, "The industry shouldn't be complaining about screeners - it should be moving towards airlines creating their own corps of flight security officers." The major carriers say they're waiting for federal air marshals. In the meantime, Mesa's security people will blend in with other...
...Slowly we doctors realize that the real fallout is just beginning. The most vulnerable people in our population, those with chronic psychiatric illnesses who don?t function well, start to show up in the emergency rooms. As the third week begins, no more waiting for people to turn up - we are busy. Over and over, patients? family members tell me the same thing, "She was doing okay, just barely, but then the Trade Center...." I think about how those of us who think of ourselves as stable feel - terrified, disbelieving, stressed to the limit - and try to imagine what...