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...They faced plenty of obstacles: the rude public merriment at their pairing; all the misery the Vatican-cowed Italian government tried to bring to their joint political, financial and personal life; the stories of his infidelities and of the movie stars (Cary Grant, Peter Sellers) utterly smitten by her allure. Yet Ponti and Loren persevered, becoming a metaphor for the lasting attraction of opposites...
...Boston University facility is paid for in part by a one-time $120 million federal grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a branch of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services. The building will also house BSL-3 labs, which study pathogens with the potential for “serious health effects.” Many of these labs currently exist, including the Microbiology and Animal Resources Core Laboratory at the Harvard Medical School...
Several solutions have been proposed as a way to resolve this embarrassment, but the Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP) is the best step toward treating high book costs like the academic impediment that they are. C-CAP would grant stipends to low-income students for their course books. However, in a fall meeting with student representatives from the Undergraduate Council (UC) and the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, a financial aid officer said that the administration was hesitant to take on something like C-CAP for fear of giving donors the impression that Harvard students don?...
...hunting and development have allowed the national bird to rebound from 417 nesting pairs in the lower 48 states in the early 1960s to more than 7,000 today, not to mention a population of 40,000 in Alaska. The government has a year to decide whether to grant the proposed polar-bear listing, but if the case of the eagle is any indicator, there won't be much debate...
...grant you, the popular media sometimes strain credulity when they portray microscopic life in terms we can understand. An item on eMaxHealth.com this week began as follows: "Like shoppers in search of the perfect pair of jeans, the body's special immune system cells apparently have assistants that help them rapidly 'try on' different pieces of a microbe to find one piece that's shaped just right to fit their cellular skins...