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...effective council is to change the council's structure. The current structure allows members to join a committee without taking on any responsibility aside from attending meetings twice a week. We need to make members work harder because they have tasks to complete, not because they have an increased load to bear with fewer members. ALEXIS B. KARTERON '01 Jan. 13,1999 The writer is Undergraduate Council Delegation Chair and Ivy Council Vice President for Internal Affairs...
...nation of non-savers to put away enough for retirement and take the load off Social Security? Senator William Roth (R-Del.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, believes he knows a good idea when he sees one: his own. Roth is proposing to take his popular Roth IRA idea and graft it onto employee 401(k) plans. The central feature of the proposal would be to make the earnings on contributions in 401(k) plans tax-free when they are distributed at retirement, much like the Roth IRA. "Obviously, any attempt to increase savings would be helpful to both...
Even more genetic gee-wizardry lies just down the road. Using biochips--thumbnail-size pieces of material imprinted with hundreds of different DNA probes--scientists should be able to identify genetic errors almost as quickly as a supermarket scanner prices a load of groceries. In some systems, the probes use different fluorescent dyes that glow under laser light when they hook up with target genes, allowing sensors to tabulate the results automatically. Genetic researchers are already talking about using "FISH [for fluorescent in-situ hybridization] and chips," as they whimsically call these new tools, to look for any number...
...accommodate only the residents of a particular House or dorm, Lichten says, meaning that the switch to universal access would mandate a memory increase in many of the older readers. However, Lichten says that some of the newer systems are capable of handling the increased swipe load without modification...
Harvard has a good corps of veterans in its four seniors and two juniors that have carried much of the load thus far. And they, along with their teammates, are only starting to get healthy...