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...neglect the generation of young scientists and those who pursue “high-risk, high-reward” research, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The project was led by a panel of university presidents and Nobel laureates, including Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech, whose institution collaborates with Harvard to fund research. The study also supports the findings of recent reports: conservative funding tends to result in conservative research, and the competition for federal funds is such that scientists spend more time applying and re-applying...
Physics professor Howard Georgi ’68, who is also president of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa chapter said that he knew Weinberg’s talk would be thoughtful and not offensive to the audience...
Hoping to fill a need unmet by the National Institutes of Health's grant system, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will give $600 million to 56 U.S.-based scientists studying long-term topics like global warming's effect on the spread of disease and the genetic basis of smell. Researchers will be free to adapt their projects and follow up new leads without scrounging for funding, an approach the institute hopes will lead to major medical breakthroughs decades from...
What's more, considering the aggressive tactics of the Clinton campaign, it's easy to see why Obama may not feel like doing his rival any favors. Clinton top strategist Howard Wolfson denied Wednesday that the campaign has had any part in organizing the protests on behalf of Michigan and Florida. But he noted, pointedly, that "given what happened in Florida in 2000 it's understandable that people feel very strongly...
...mins. watching something I can get at home? And I was off to a Cannes Classic screening of David Lean's 1949 The Passionate Friends, from an H.G. Wells novel about a woman (Lean's then-wife Ann Todd) who'd had an affair with someone her age (Trevor Howard) but married a wealthy, older man (Claude Rains). It's not one of the great director's masterpieces, but it had an emotional gravity that locates the difference between love and being in love, and it fulfilled the basic dictum of Golden Age movies: beautiful people with difficult problems...