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...back in the 1960s—when guys seemed averse to razors and grooming, girls were banished to Radcliffe Yard, and students of both genders stormed into University Hall to protest whatever they felt like protesting—the Harvard Psilocybin Project was in full swing [see correction below]. The project, which involved administering psilocybin (a consciousness-expanding drug) to research subjects, brought together Timothy Leary, Huston Smith, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), and former Crimson editor Andrew T. Weil ’63, four men who became major players in the counterculture movement and, as Lattin claims, "killed...
...disease easily from other cancers that afflict the Tasmanian devil, and could eventually help determine a genetic pathway to attack the tumor itself. "This is the first application of genetics to estimate the basic biology of the tumor," says Tony Papenfuss, a bioinformatics researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne and a co-author of the Science paper. "And we've produced a set of tools that can push that information further...
...hoped to close by July 2011. For all the professed savings, however, shocked students and faculty expressed their concerns with the pervasive culture of budget trimming: “This stinks of rhetoric—the whole Web site does," as one student eloquently stated at a subsequent town hall meeting. In September, Smith announced that FAS had cut about half of its $220 million projected annual deficit, heralding some good news to pierce what had been an unwieldy fiscal maelstrom for the earlier part...
...fabulous. Next stop would be the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery, tel: (44-131) 624 6336, followed by the ultimate Edinburgh treat - afternoon tea in the Balmoral hotel, tel: (44-131) 556 2414. In the evening I'd watch a classical concert at Usher Hall, tel: (44-131) 228 1155, one of the city's great festival spaces. Finally I'd settle down to a late dinner and some live music at my fantastic local, the Shore Bar & Restaurant, tel: (44-131) 553 5080. (See pictures of whisky making in Scotland...
...Sometimes, of course, baseball and politics don't mix. When U.S. public-diplomacy envoy Cal Ripken Jr. visited Nicaragua last year, the Hall of Fame shortstop was forced to cut short his baseball clinics because of postelectoral political riots. But that hasn't soured interest in developing baseball here...