Word: labs
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Until you pass by the Naito Chemistry Lab, or meet one of Harvard Law School's Binladin Fellows--funded by the family of accused international terrorist Osama bin Laden. Harvard's biggest donors are no longer just New England's richest--in recent decades, they have grown to include the world's richest...
...started teaching at the Graduate School of Education in 1965 and in 1966 she established what is now the Harvard Literacy Lab, which trains instructors in how to teach reading...
Lecturer on Education Vicki A. Jacobs, who co-authored with Chall The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind (1990), said Chall constantly applied her research to her work with the literacy lab...
...Drug Administration, acknowledging growing public concern, held the first of three public forums on g.m. foods. FrankenTony showed up, along with a covey of kids dressed as monarch butterflies, feigning death before a mock cornstalk--an allusion to the discovery by scientists last spring that, at least in the lab, pollen from g.m. corn can kill the butterfly's caterpillars. Not to be left out, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman was said to be considering the appointment of a panel of experts to advise him on the pros and cons of biotech. And in the surest sign of shifting political...
...that any direct threat to health from genetically modified foods has been found, except by a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. potatoes damaged his lab rats. On the contrary, as scientists told the FDA, genetically modified foods could carry clear health benefits, such as delivering more nutrients, reducing spoilage and curtailing chemical contamination. Besides, natural doesn't always mean good: cassava, for example, can be toxic if not properly prepared...