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...continuing resolution, which postpones budgetary decisions until after the presidential election to avoid a presidential veto by President Bush, keeps the maximum Pell Grant award level and federal support for research organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy constant, through March 6. If the continuing resolution had not been passed, such decisions would have been completed by October...
...database of Koreans who passed citizen service examinations during the Chosun period, which spanned from 1392 to 1910. Today, the database—which Kim called an important record of the Chosun elite group—includes the genealogy and social status of around 80,000 people as of March 2007, according to the Harvard Gazette...
When Bear Stearns collapsed in March, The New York Times described the storied Wall Street investment bank as “a throwback to a bygone era,” a place with a “cigar-chomping, suspender-wearing culture where taking risks was rewarded.” Some Harvard researchers may have found the link between the culture and the bust. Men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to opt for high-risk investments, according to a study by a Harvard anthropologist and a visiting economist. The researchers gave 98 male Harvard undergraduates $250 and asked...
...most of the effects will be invisible. The Yard is undergoing a comprehensive soil restoration project that will revitalize its heavily-trodden grass and, within the next year, eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. Three organic test plots were implemented in Harvard Yard in March 2008. The plots were fed compost in lieu of conventional chemicals, and have been monitored biweekly for soil health and texture for the past six months. The ongoing results of the plots “exceeded expectations” according to Eric T. Fleisher, who was a fellow last year...
...give up their guns to a government they suspect views them with hostility, at a time when they fear revenge from remnants of al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. Across Iraq, many SOIs have been targeted, some killed by unknown assailants. Al-A'ghayde survived an assassination attempt in March, and his home was firebombed a few months before that. He and his men don't want civilian jobs that would not enable them to carry weapons...