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Over the past two decades, Sachs has surrounded himself with a handful of the world’s most skilled surgeons and immunologists, as well has two dozen baboons and several hundred inbred miniature pigs.

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chronicling Sachs’ Organs | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

Harvard has never been a paradise for rock and roll. Look at any bulletin board: around here, cellos are preferable to guitars, bhangra has a greater following than any one campus band, and a cappella concerts fill Sanders Theatre on a regular basis.Is this because we, as a student body...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Does Harvard Have an Appetite for Rock and Roll? | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

About 200 people gathered outside the Bush Presidential Conference Center at Texas A&M University on Monday to protest a lecture by Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington, claiming that his views on immigration were offensive and false. According to Armando Alonzo—an associate professor in the history...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Protest Greets Prof on Texas Visit | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

All influenza viruses--if you trace their lineage back far enough--got their start in birds, and the great majority stay there. But a handful of flu viruses adapt to the point that they can infect people. Each year the viruses capable of invading human cells mutate slightly in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avian Flu: How Scared Should We Be? | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

There are troubling signs, however, that H5N1 is on the move. The virus killed thousands of wild geese in China this past spring and popped up among migratory birds in parts of Siberia this summer. There was a report in May about a handful of infected pigs in western Java...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avian Flu: How Scared Should We Be? | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

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