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After 300 some-odd years and hundreds of Crimson scrutinies, everything there is to know about living at this institution is known. Thousands of students have taken the classes and lived in the dorms and taken the red line to Park Street. Upperclass students dutifully pass the wisdom down to first-years, supposedly doing them a great service by allowing them to learn from other people's mistakes. But any new student who blindly follows everyone else's advice will likely have a rather boring time...
...need no convincing that the purpose of the university is nothing like that of a department store; Mr. Resnick's editorial will indeed draw "sarcastic chuckles" from them, and rightly so. But perhaps it will compel those who make policy at Harvard to check that their practice is in line with their ideals, and to realize with whom they agree when...
...need no convincing that the purpose of the university is nothing like that of a department store; Mr. Resnick's editorial will indeed draw "sarcastic chuckles" from them, and rightly so. But perhaps it will compel those who make policy at Harvard to check that their practice is in line with their ideals, and to realize with whom they agree when...
...Court, Justice Sandra Day O?Connor said that "the ADA?s coverage is restricted to only those whose impairments are not mitigated by corrective measures." People whose conditions are easily dealt with by medications or simple devices like eyeglasses are not protected under the act. "This was clearly a line-drawing set of decisions," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen, "and now it will be important to see how the line-drawing gets done in the lower courts...
BLUE GENES Welcome to the brave new greenhouse. Last week Florigene, a biotech company based in Australia, launched its line of violet carnations, Moonshadow, which do not exist in nature but were genetically engineered using a gene from petunias. The company plans to release a black carnation (made with an eggplant gene) next year and eventually hopes to create blue-hued roses. Maybe one day it will even make people into Smurfs...