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...spot—the MAC quad, which Kuhn hopes will translate into an upgraded fair. Wilson also hopes to step up Earth Day’s game: “This year we’re going to try and have a raffle for gift certificates from various environmentally aware businesses,” she says. Kuhn calls undergraduate environmental consciousness “really encouraging.” She sees the filling of three auditoriums for a screening of “An Inconvenient Truth” as a sign of this “increased awareness?...
...Dunkin' Donuts shop in Sarasota, Fla., you might think you had stumbled into a Starbucks. Bags of beans and oversize coffee mugs near the door? Check. A waiting area for lattes and cappuccinos? Check. Heck, there's even free wi-fi and a rack of gift cards by the register...
...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...
...sign of her distance from real life. Smiley is so caught up with the academic arguments of war that she loses touch with the things that make a novel: characters, narrative, and a personal aesthetic.But even if characters are ill-sketched and the narrative remains thin, Smiley has a gift for identifying beauty and breaking it down.Back in the bedroom, Max films Elena with a camcorder: “He lifted the camera to his eye again, and focused it just on the curve of her back as it shaped her waist, then swelled into her buttock. When he looked...
...Libby's conviction comes at the end of a dreadful year for Cheney: last February he accidentally sprayed a friend with bird shot while hunting in Texas. A week before the midterms, in a gift to Democrats, he all but endorsed waterboarding on a North Dakota radio talk show as an interrogation technique. Mary Cheney, his openly gay daughter, ran afoul of conservative activists in December when it was revealed that she and her partner were expecting a baby. Late last month, while he was touring Bagram air base in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber attacked the camp's perimeter...