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Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...
There is one connection to the University. In the mid-1980s, someone donated a cast-iron sundial in John Harvard's name; it now sits in Hylton Park--"the Harvard park, we all call it," Gilmore says...
Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...
There is one connection to the University. In the mid-1980s, someone donated a cast-iron sundial in John Harvard's name; it now sits in Hylton Park--"the Harvard park, we all call it," Gilmore says...
Until the mid-1980s, researchers assumed that nerves in the central system were simply incapable of regrowth once they were damaged. A researcher at McGill University in Montreal, Alberto Aguayo, turned this assumption around by demonstrating that a nerve taken from an animal's leg and grafted onto the central nervous system allowed the nerve cells to grow along the transplanted nerve. Evidently there was nothing wrong with spinal-cord nerves, but something in the central nervous system was impeding their growth...