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...long way from that holy grail. It is still early in the season and no Boston fan needs to be reminded about how last season’s team was leading AL East at the All-Star Break before degenerating into an embarrassing collection of lunatics and layabouts...
...Without even trying, Hubble had come tantalizingly close to the Holy Grail of optical astronomy, that moment in the life of the young universe when light first appeared. Holland Ford, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and the Godfather of Hubble science, calls it "this twilight zone between a universe that is illuminated by stars, galaxies and quasars, and the universe in that period before it that was dark, before there were stars and galaxies...
Genomics can help increase productivity by ramping up the identification of target proteins and by increasing the efficiency of drug discovery. Says Ben Conway, principal at Boston venture-capital firm Adams, Harkness & Hill: "Genomics was going to be the Holy Grail. Now people appreciate that it's come down to proteomics"--the large-scale analysis of proteins...
Beyond the early adopters—the enthusiasts and the visionaries—lies the Holy Grail of technology markets, the multi-billion dollar markets held by the pragmatic majority that tech startups try so hard to woo. The problem is that the majority thinks very differently from the early adopters. They want complete solutions; they don’t like to take risks. And that means that a product that does everything right for the early adopters will never sell well to the majority unless the company making it drastically changes the way it markets the device, stressing...
Career advice at Harvard has always been spotty and conflicted. But the one piece of advice everyone seems to agree upon is that the Holy Grail of internships is one that gives an intern exposure to a career that he or she could really love. While this ideal may be the mantra of the Office of Career Services, it is certainly hard to come by. Have any of these advisors actually experienced an internship? Have they ever felt the eternal tick of seconds that make the hours between 2 and 3 p.m. seem like ten lifetimes? Have they ever made...