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...exactly have 40 years of experimental pharmacology done to them? It would not have been possible--much less ethical--to recruit subjects when the 1960s drug circus got started, send them off for four decades of substance abuse and bring them back for study. But now that the ad hoc longitudinal experiment those aging boomers have been conducting on themselves is reaching its endgame, addiction experts are pouncing on what the doctors and psychiatrists treating the abusers are learning. What they uncover may help not only the surviving victims of the early drug years but younger users as well...
...down. Members who spoke against the bill expressed concern about setting a precedent for future shuttle services and about fairness to those students who opted to walk rather than use taxis. Earlier in the meeting, the council resumed discussion of its website with the council’s ad-hoc website committee, formalized this past week, soliciting suggestions from representatives. The discussion of the website, which many council members criticize as inefficient, outdated, and poorly designed, had been tabled since the rejection of a $15,000 allocation for the site in early October. Glazer commented briefly on last week?...
...important questions. Among the benefits the Harvard community could hope to gain from greater University openness are a more complete knowledge of crime trends and information on why people are stopped, questioned, and arrested. Over the past few years, the University has complied with information requests on an ad hoc basis — last year, the school released aggregate suicide statistics that allowed The Crimson to expand its mental health coverage. But this ad hoc system is precisely the problem: we are beholden to the goodwill of an administration that has the potential to be open one moment...
...candidates’ beliefs align with those of President Bush. “Computer science people have their own sense of humor,” said Yan Zhang ’07, one of the three members of the HC^3 squad, nicknamed “Team Ad Hoc.” According to Zhang, the “whimsical and playful” problems reflected this humor. The contest organizers emphasized the breadth of material covered. “Tackling these problems is equivalent to completing a semester’s worth of computer programming in one afternoon...
...laws. No one doubts that the police and intelligence agencies face a monstrous challenge. Penetrating terror organizations as formally structured as the i.r.a. was tough, even for Northern Ireland?born intelligence operatives; so much harder, then, for the average local police officer to discover the plans of ad-hoc teams of murderers like the men who bombed Madrid and London, and who hide among Muslim communities that are themselves relatively impenetrable. But frustrating as it might be to the authorities, the collective wisdom of our ancestors says that before you can be imprisoned, you must first be caught, tried...