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Bioengineering at Harvard is about to take off. In late September, Hansjörg Wyss donated $125 million to Harvard to found the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Topping the $100 million for international programs and the arts that Harvard received last April from David Rockefeller ’36, this gift is the largest donation in Harvard’s long—and wealthy—history. The Harvard community should be thankful both for Wyss’ generous donation and for the research it will fund. As a combined project between the School of Engineering...
There's no shot clock in presidential politics. Instead, it's like old-school basketball - if one side opens up a lead late in the game, they stall. Hang on to the ball. Don't take chances. Force the other side to take all the risks...
...Barack Obama ran that classic, careful late-game offense Tuesday night in the second of three presidential debates this fall. Ahead in the polls, he was safe, cautious, disciplined and boring - and nothing John McCain attempted was enough to lure him into recklessness. By the end of the evening at Belmont University in Nashville, McCain was 90 minutes closer to running out of time...
...stall is characterized by long periods of boredom punctuated by brief flashes of drama. Late in the debate, Obama was killing time with a stern patch of bravado: "We will kill Bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda," and so on. How dead would that guy be by now if American speeches could kill a person...
...Kryzan, painting her as a liberal candidate who would raise taxes. And she is not immune to anti-corporate attacks. Some of the harshest criticism Kryzan faced in the primary season was for working as a lawyer for the chemical company responsible for the Love Canal disaster of the late 1970s and early 1980s in Niagara Falls. The candidates are set to debate a few times before Election Day, and the negativity will surely be on display. Kryzan is used to the harsh tone from the primary season, but this time she faces a well-financed opponent gunning squarely...