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...committee maintains the same structure that was used for Harvard’s last two presidential searches—with three members of the Board of Overseers, the University’s second-highest governing board, joining the Corporation fellows. Today’s announcement indicates that the secretive Corporation will again play a dominant role in choosing Harvard’s next leader...
...highest levels of the U.S. and Mexican governments have orchestrated this situation as a kind of dance: Mexico sends its poor north to take jobs illegally, and the U.S. arrests enough of the border crossers to create the illusion that it is enforcing the immigration laws while allowing the great majority to get through. Local lawmen like Jim Elkins and Larry Dever have learned the dance firsthand, and their towns and counties have...
...disappointing news on the avian flu front. The good news is that the study of 451 healthy adults shows that a vaccine manufactured by Sanofi Aventis using current standard techniques is safe. The bad news is that the inoculation will most likely be effective in humans only at the highest doses. Furthermore, the results show that the vaccine - as it is currently constituted - would take two and perhaps three injections to achieve good protection. That is a problem, since the U.S.?s already modest stockpile of material to make an avian flu vaccine won?t stretch very far. In order...
...flora and fauna in the Costa Rican cloud- and rain-forest canopies invented the system in the 1980s. It's an adventure that is eco-friendly - not one nail or bolt is drilled into a tree, as the whole system is held together with tension and leverage forces. The highest point is 30m above the ground, and you can reach speeds of up to 50km/h. And if you're after a bit of wildlife to go with your whooping and swooping, head out early in the mornings for the best sightings of baboons, Samago monkeys and the many birds that...
...TIME: You were the highest-ranking woman at the U.N., but in many quarters, it's still seen as a patriarchal, conservative place...