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...secret that rats - which spend much of their lives navigating narrow, often lightless passages - need more than a good sense of smell to get around. They also need a sense of touch, and it's their whiskers that do most of that work for them. What researchers never knew was precisely how elaborate that tactile system is, nor exactly how it operates. But in research that will be published in the Feb. 28 issue of Neuron, investigators at MIT have come up with an imaginative tool for finding out: high-speed video technology that works at 3,200 frames...
...mission of Harvard Medical School, than it is hard to see what is. Profitability should not be dismissed for its own sake. While HMI may resemble McKinsey & Company more closely than the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the increasing globalization of health care calls for bold new initiatives, not narrow-minded thinking and knee-jerk responses to programs that don’t fit the traditional mold of Harvard institutions...
...That distance may gradually start to narrow, although the group remains confident that its growing celebrity won't affect its militant stance. "We have always taken on the status quo and that is never going to change," says Yusuf from his simple two-room bungalow, just down the hill from Taring Padi's studio. "We have been, and will always be, critical...
...Given the cynical national response to activities like this, Prime Minister Brown’s statement is ridiculous. It asserts a narrow-minded idea of British nationalism that hardly exists to begin with. A recent submission to the The Times’ competition for the best British slogan perhaps put it best: “Once Mighty Empire, Slightly Used.” It would be far more worthwhile to concentrate on assimilating the multiplicity of the nation’s ethnicities and religions, through tolerance of ideas like Williams’, rather than maintain an unbending nationalistic tone...
Harvard’s men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to New Haven for the HYP tri-meet, where the women almost upset the Tigers, falling by a narrow four points to finish second. The men placed third. With 58 points, the Harvard women tallied seven ECAC qualifying finishes and nine personal bests to overpower the Bulldogs’ meager 39 points, but came up just short of Princeton’s 62. “The meet was really exciting,” junior Becky Christensen said...