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...fall on the same weekend as the MCAT test. The Boston Globe reported last March that Harvard undergraduates gave lower ratings to their college experience than students at other elite schools in a 2002 survey. The comparatively low rating of faculty accessibility and social life confirmed the long-held stereotype that, despite Harvard’s reputation as the gold standard of education, the University in many ways fails to meet the needs of its undergraduate needs. Many administrators and House Masters contacted could not explain the source of the party ban. “We just inherited...
...might do. In fact, no one expected miracles from Lula, as he is known to everyone in this mammoth South American nation. Though he had a long and noble history of fighting for the little guy - in a country where the vast majority are little guys - the former shoeshine boy and union leader had little formal education and no experience in government; what's more, he altered many of his long-held positions during the campaign to embrace free-market economics and soften his once leftist rhetoric. The one thing they didn't expect to see was Lula's Workers...
Scientists can now observe protein production real-time inside individual cells, according to research conducted by Harvard professor X. Sunney Xie. This study, the results of which were published last week in the journals Science and Nature, represents a breakthrough in protein-imaging technology and confirms some long-held speculations about the process protein synthesis, according to the researchers. Now, as a result of his research, “we can probe the fundamental biochemical interactions in living cells with the ultimate sensitivity, sensitivity not possible with previous technology,” said Xie, professor of chemistry and chemical biology...
That assessment will be tested more rigorously when researchers compare Kennewick Man's skull with databases of several thousand other skulls, both modern and ancient. But provisionally, at least, the evidence fits in with a revolutionary new picture that over the past decade has utterly transformed anthropologists' long-held theories about the colonization of the Americas...
While the researchers did not look specifically at the quality of the work, a long history of psychological research has proved what one might expect: performance declines--and stress rises--with the number of tasks juggled. Similarly, there's a long-held principle in psychology that maintains that a little stimulation or arousal improves performance but too much causes it to decline. "If you apply that law to multitasking," says Mark, "you would expect that a certain amount of multitasking would increase arousal, perhaps leading to greater efficiency. But too much will produce declining performance...