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...edition while eating breakfast and bringing it with them on their commute to work. Some predict that portable wireless gadgets that receive news feeds could act as competitive substitutes for newspapers, but portable radios and televisions have existed for years without hurting newspaper sales. Researchers in the MIT Media Lab were recently looking into the possibility of developing paper with ink that rearranges itself on the page upon receiving electronic signals--so, in essence, your paper newspaper could be updating itself with the latest news throughout the day. That would be interesting...
Wondering how far the local lab goes in taking advantage of the Harvard name (Does it charge different rates for Ivy League and non-Ivy-League sperm?) I dial up the cryobank's Web page. Sure enough, it contains a small but noticeable boast: "The majority of our donors come from UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT." As of March 1, 1996, the Web site reads, the cost of a sample for fertilization starts at $142, for something called an intracervical insemination...
...ordered a full review of all case files and materials, it was discovered--where else?--right at police headquarters, in a storage area where investigators are holding a pile of other evidence. The flashlight, which doesn't belong to a cop, was sent to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation lab for testing. Police became interested in the light because its heavy rubber coating seems consistent with an instrument that could deliver a crushing blow yet not cause bleeding. It is among a handful of pieces of physical evidence that police feel could shed major light on the murder...
...courses are in many ways more rigorous than the Core courses they currently bypass. This is particularly true in Physics C, which makes use of singlevariable calculus, in contrast to most Science A courses which cannot assume as high a level of mathematical preparation. Even in chemistry and biology, lab and field experience in high school AP science courses is almost universally more substantial than in Harvard's science Cores...
...ordered a full review of all case files and materials, it was discovered ? where else? ? right at police headquarters, in a storage area where investigators are holding a pile of other evidence. The flashlight, which doesn?t belong to a cop, was sent to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation lab for testing. Police became interested in the light because its heavy rubber coating seems consistent with an instrument that could deliver a crushing blow yet not cause bleeding. It is among a handful of pieces of physical evidence that police feel could shed major light on the murder...