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...allow these students to apply for spring transfer status in a special round of applications preceding the standard transfer application cycle. Certainly, the circumstances of these eight students are unfortunate, and all in the Harvard community want to handle this situation with as much respect and sensitivity as possible. Nevertheless, the central facts of this issue cannot be ignored. For reasons of fairness and practicality, the UC’s plan is misguided and should be rejected. Like other colleges that offered to accept displaced New Orleans college students, Harvard has a duty to Tulane to not allow its visiting...
...University who finally succeeded in turning a single cell from the ear of an Afghan hound into a genetically identical puppy. Hwang was back in the news last week when he admitted lying about the source of some of the human eggs used in an earlier stem-cell experiment. Nevertheless, many scientists suspect the techniques Hwang perfected to clone a dog could be adapted to duplicate almost any species--including a primate...
...take part in the environmental-impact-assessment process, and to use the legal system to take the most egregious offenders to court. Beijing has also opened the door to thousands of environmental NGOs that now openly tackle issues such as biodiversity protection, dam resettlement and public-health awareness. Nevertheless, the government remains wary of too much citizen activism, fearing calls for broader political reform. NGO leaders who tread into politically sensitive areas have been barred from further activity, prevented from leaving the country and even arrested...
...flicked through slides showing possible locations for Harvard construction projects on the new campus. None of the options were new, and all of the images have been on display for the last month at the “Harvard in Allston” exhibit room in the Holyoke Center. Nevertheless, Spiegelman did comment on the viability of some of the plans. For example, Spiegelman said a proposal to construct a new tunnel under the Charles River, extending an abandoned T tunnel from the Square to the Harvard athletic facilities, was “most challenging...
...rather win than lose or tie,” Raimondi said. “But it’s an uphill battle and we’re working toward February and March. We’ll be where we need to be.” The loss, nevertheless, marked the first time Harvard has dropped games to the Bulldogs in back-to-back seasons since 1981. Yale beat the Crimson in New Haven last year when Love totaled 48 saves. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...