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...material presented in this course,” Liu writes. Several students say that they admire the premise of the course. “I think it was a really good concept to combine all the different aspects of science in order for us to get a bigger grasp of how they play in with each other,” Martha A. Tesfalul ’09 says.Vanessa Vargas ’09 also praises the course’s efforts to look out for students with less science background, but says the course lacks focus at times...

Author: By Elaine Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking for Links In the Life Sciences | 1/11/2006 | See Source »

...still develop dementia in their 50s. Others will do everything wrong and be perfectly lucid at 101. Most of the rest of us will fall somewhere between those two extremes. For now, at least, preventing dementia is still a numbers game, but one in which we're starting to grasp the variables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Can You Prevent Alzheimer's Disease? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Kadima's first priority is to keep its Likud and Labor recruits from drifting back to home base. Labor managers are eager to grasp what they see as a fresh opportunity to boost their flagging leader, trade unionist Amir Peretz, whose lack of experience in diplomacy and security issues pushed middle-of-the-roaders toward Sharon. The man who hopes to profit most from Sharon's tragedy, however, is his archrival, Benjamin Netanyahu, the onetime Prime Minister whose tenure was marked by relentless opposition to any territorial trade-aways. Left running a rump party populated by the far right that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubled Soil | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...feeling of frustration that followed Rabin’s murder has returned. Then, in the midst of a euphoric era in which peace seemed around the corner, Rabin, and with him the hope for peace, were assassinated. Again, there is a sense that peace has once again eluded our grasp...

Author: By Mishy Harman and Mishy Harman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: A Stroke Against Peace | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

...then by receiving briefings from the heads of Israel's security services and calling Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to apprise him of developments in Israel. Israelis can expect to see a lot of Olmert conferring with military chiefs in the weeks ahead, in the hope of demonstrating a firm grasp on defense matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Succeed Sharon | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

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