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...scientist who has elucidated a better understanding of the genetic code, Philip Leder ’56, who now acts as chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, says he comes from modest beginnings. A resident of Stoughton Hall his freshman year, Leder, who grew up in Arlington, Va., says that his dormitory was a reflection of his socioeconomic standing. “There was a hierarchy of dorms,” he recalls. “Those with the means could live in nicer dorms at the time and if those without could live...
...with a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas with a completely unpronounceable name,” Obama said. “But there were some people who did believe—and one of those guys was also a Harvard Law School graduate who came from a modest background...
...been well worth it. "The decline in the murder rate was substantial, the most substantial we?ve seen globally over such a time period," said Bob Reynolds, director of the Pacific Institute's Alcohol Policy Initiatives in West Virginia and a consultant on the Diadema project. "They made a relatively modest intervention...and they got these dramatic improvements. I was able to tell them, 'This is as good as it gets...
...warming problem - but so are population growth, agriculture and a host of other realities that aren't going to go away just because environmentalists disapprove of them. If climate change can be slowed, it's going to require an attack on all fronts. Getting the public genuinely involved in modest but effective solutions will not only cut the growth in carbon emissions, but help build the constituency for the larger tasks needed. Even the virtuous need an incentive, as Socrates would surely admit if he was still around...
...late last year, the town has swelled with the arrival of some 18,000 refugees who left their villages to escape fighting between government troops and a vicious rebel outfit known as the Mai Mai. Most arrive with little more than the clothes they are wearing. Sitting outside a modest house where they rent a room, Ngoi Banza Leontine, 45, and her husband Monji Banza, 47, say they fled the fighting with their nine children just before Christmas, after the Mai Mai came to their village and burned many of the houses. The Mai Mai, who believe in magic...