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Last week, a few students in the Dartmouth writing class “Science, Technology, and Society” received a nasty shock. When they checked their inboxes, they learned that their professor, Priya Venkatesan, was planning to sue them for discrimination. Later investigations revealed that she also planned to...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: If You Can’t Beat ’em, Sue ’em | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

One characteristic that pain doesn't seem to distinguish is gender: according to Krueger and Stone's study, men and women were nearly equally likely to find themselves in pain. Another is age. People reported more aches and pains as they got older, though surprisingly that pain tended to plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millions of Americans in Chronic Pain | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

“Our [supervising officers] say, ‘That will set you apart from everyone,’” he said. “We did have a great experience here, and we learned from some of the best professors in the world.?...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Riding With the Paul Revere Battalion | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

But while “pop science” may be easier to read than research papers, these authors have found that the process of turning complicated scientific theories into digestible bits of popular science requires them to learn to write without jargon but also to avoid oversimplification. As the...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

Giambastiani assigned the task to the Joint Warfighting Center and gave them a pretty tight timeline. So it wasn't long before I was giving the investigative team a complete rundown of everything that had happened in Iraq between May and June 2003. I later learned that Gen. Tommy Franks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Did Rumsfeld Know? | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

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