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...have gotten very excited about puzzles I might be able to contribute to,” he said. An initial area of focus for vaccine development will be a small pool of HIV-infected patients whose bodies can somehow control replication of the virus. The announcement of the gift??which included a statement by University President Drew G. Faust—took place at a gathering of a couple hundred people yesterday at Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel. “[The Institute] will accelerate the discovery process, and it will reduce the time it takes...
...with anything but the undisputed classics: “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Blood On The Tracks,” or “Blonde On Blonde.” But for the serious Dylan fan, the Bootleg Series itself is not only a gift??it’s a necessity.If we search for Dylan’s identity—in his evolving musical tableau, in his baffling lyrics, in his myriad influences or his harebrained interviews—we can never get closer to the mark than the knowledge that...
...David Rockefeller ’36 spoke after Faust about the motivations for his gift??the largest by an alumnus in Harvard’s history...
...release the ball closer to home plate than their shorter counterparts. And for other sports, the advantages are more obvious, such as a closeness to the hoop in basketball and an heightened ability to spike in volleyball The overall intimidation factor does not hurt either.This “gift?? does not come without slight drawbacks, however. Many athletes attribute knee and back problems to their size. Also, what is gained in strength is lost in speed.“[Height is] a disadvantage when you have to do things that require more quickness,” Snyder said...
...Harvard-MIT institute announced a $100 million gift this week to create a new center to study psychiatric disease, in a move that backers say will jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The Stanley Medical Research Institute awarded the gift??the largest ever given for psychiatric disease research—to the Broad Institute, a three-year-old joint venture between Harvard and MIT. “There’s no understanding of the causes of these diseases, and that needs to come from collaboration between clinical people and those...