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...Tokyo, building a response to the North Korean announcement. Speaking to TIME between calls, Ban said he was "much worried and troubled" about the possibility of a nuclear test. That's in part because of the impact it could have on the job he may be about to land: Secretary-General of the United Nations. "I hope this situation will not cause any problems to my current candidacy," he says...
...undergraduates may be training to save lives at sea, but this week they delivered one on land. On the way to a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) session, Domenico A. Pellegrini ’09 and Jack D. Reed ’08 found and facilitated a woman giving birth in a van parked near 16 Garden Street early Tuesday morning. The students said they remained with the mother, who was alone, and newborn child until rescue crews arrived. Paramedics transported the woman and baby to the Cambridge City Hospital shortly before 6 a.m., according to Cambridge Fire Department...
While an outsider may be able to come to understand these traditions and quirks after an ample period of immersion, Harvard’s next president will need to hit the ground running and can’t afford to survey the lay of the land for too long. Before he or she even formally takes office, the new president will need to make one of the most crucial decisions of his or her tenure by selecting a new dean of the Faculty. He or she will also be faced with the prospects of implementing a new College curriculum, jumpstarting...
...largest in the center’s 99-year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive species, forest clearance and development. Since 1988, NSF has been renewing the grant to the Harvard Forest every six years—increasing the grant amount each time. “We’re trying to look at effective management and conservation approaches for dealing with these...
Kopp saw her friends leave the Ivy League for white-shoe firms, all too happy to line their pockets and join the land of conspicuous consumption. She saw that as a problem...