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...running very close to running this whole thing into the sand,” Pilbeam said. “We are not very good at fine-tuning in the committee as a whole,” Pilbeam said, referring to the entire Faculty. He assured his colleagues that minor concerns with the legislation will be addressed by the much smaller committee assigned to implement the final legislation. But just one week before the final vote, some professors expressed concern that fundamental disagreements about the future of general education at Harvard remain. “I don’t think...
...take the same classes. In the summer, however, that parallel breaks down: students on financial aid are expected to work to pay their student contribution. If a student is planning on interning on Wall Street or taking a paying job elsewhere, coming up with the contribution, while a minor pain, is a reasonable demand. But if a student wants to take a public service internship which pays little to nothing, the average $1,500 to $2,300 student summer work contribution could force that student to reconsider his or her summer plans. It shouldn’t be that...
...camera for smell. The bell-shaped glass tool captures a living plant's "headspace": the air surrounding it. Using chromatography and mass spectrometry, scientists analyze the captured molecules, and computer programs help map out the plants' primary components. Most have between 60 and 120, with as many as 100 minor notes. Developers re-create the smell using natural or synthetic oils. To do that, IFF draws on a rotating mix of more than 2,000 plants, flowers and herbs at its R&D facility in New Jersey, which is home to the world's largest collection of aromatic orchids, with...
Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor Fogg Art Museum, Calderwood Courtyard...
...hawkish Alem?n, who speaks wistfully of the repressive days of the Somoza dictatorship (which Ortega overthrew as leader of the Sandinista insurgents), was never a typical prisoner. He has spent more of his jail sentence in a hospital bed recovering from a minor finger surgery (three months to be exact) than he spent behind bars. And now that full freedom appears to be just around the corner, he has valiantly cast aside concerns for his own health for the good of his party...