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Redoubling their efforts to unlock the power of the human genome, philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad yesterday pledged an additional $100 million to the biomedical research center they helped launch a year and a half ago as a joint venture of Harvard and MIT...
Redoubling their efforts to unlock the power of the human genome, philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad yesterday pledged an additional $100 million to the biomedical research center they helped launch a year and a half ago as a joint venture of Harvard and MIT. The new funding to the Broad Institute, which doubles the $100 million originally announced by the billionaire couple in 2003, will be made through Harvard and will be distributed over 10 years. When the initial donation was made to MIT last year, the gift was considered “seed” money...
...rancorous event that often challenged the moderator’s ability to keep control and drew strong reactions from the overflow crowd, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz debated MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict last night.The debate at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, which touched on issues such as the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and Israel’s commitment to peace, was highly confrontational. Dershowitz accused Chomsky of living on a fictional “Planet Chomsky” and Chomsky claimed that Dershowitz had misrepresented his views...
...contract,” Snegroff said, calling the wage hikes “unprecedented.” But she also said that Harvard’s wages still will not be on par with those offered at its local peer institutions, such as Boston College, Boston University, and MIT. “It brings [Harvard’s janitors] closer, but, in a few years, those schools will be making a lot more,” she said. Under the contract, custodians working the late-night shift will receive an additional 50 cents per hour, and janitors who work...
...middle-ranking countries. The Geneva meeting set a goal of bringing half the world's population online by 2015; the Tunis meeting is expected to work out a plan of action for achieving that target. Perhaps the most novel innovation: The $100 wind-up lap-top introduced by MIT director Nicholas Negroponte, who plans to have millions in production within a year in order to facilitate computerized education for the some of the world's poorest children...