Word: functionally
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...received a $16.5 million donation to fund cancer research, marking the largest gift from an individual in the Harvard-affiliated institute’s 58-year history. The institute’s chief scientific officer, Barrett J. Rollins, said the donation will be used to research proteins and their functions at a soon-to-be-created center named for the donors, Jack Blais, an optical coating entrepreneur who has been a trustee of Dana-Farber since 2002, and his wife, Shelley. In addition to Friday’s donation, the couple has given $13.5 million to the institute since...
...Emergency Communications Department serves a three-fold function for Cambridge’s citizens: it dispatches emergency responders to the scene; it instructs callers on how to deal with emergencies that can’t wait; and it acts as a centralized switchboard for all municipal departments and services, such as the fire and police departments...
...Prime Minister Tony Blair has tried to clean up the mess by introducing a change even its supporters acknowledge is paradoxical: extending the hours that pubs and bars can stay open. The 11:30 p.m. closing time, imposed during World War I to ensure that munitions workers could function by breakfast, has always encouraged pub crawlers to toss 'em down fast before last call. Under the new law, which took effect last month, bars can apply for licenses to stay open the entire night. Its backers argue that longer hours would encourage a more relaxed and responsible drinking culture like...
...transformed into freshmen social space—as offices open to lottery. When considering applications for the Yard space in particular, the student-heavy subcommittee should resist giving preference to older or more moneyed groups. Instead, all groups should be forced to make a case for why their function requires a location in the Yard. Subcommittee members should be especially wary of using group size as a metric, as it is extremely easy to inflate membership numbers.There is no way to placate established student groups who may be displaced by this process other than by maintaining the current, unfair status...
...this attitude, however, is something we all perceive: the loss of community. Rather than being engaged in a four-year utopian community, students simultaneously look inward, towards studies and the necessity of personal academic achievement, and forward, towards the prosperous futures ensured by that achievement. Consequently, Harvard ceases to function as a socially interactive organism and fragments into individuals and groups of students united by similar ambitions. The immediate moment, these few years of youth, recede into the background. Saturday-night parties and University policy become matters of relative indifference, for better or for worse.This is by no means...