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Back in the mid-1990s, when astronomers were just beginning to find new planets around distant stars, nearly every new discovery got front-page headlines. Today, with the extrasolar-planet count up to about 400, it takes something extraordinary to make news...
...earlier version of the Dec. 16 news article "Cyber Safety Expert Visits" incorrectly attributed quotes to Danah Boyd—a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a fellow at the Berkman Center—instead of another speaker at the event. Boyd did not say that Boston has been working on a cyber-safety project with funding from Microsoft. The article has been changed to reflect this inaccuracy...
Following recent news that Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 has chosen to step down from the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—Reverend Peter J. Gomes suggested that a Harvard faculty member should fill in the opening...
...announcement that no additional funding will be cut from the Harvard College libraries is great news. We hope that, in the future, funds secured amidst changing budget structures will include similar measures. With any luck, the FAS’s new interest in reinstating secure spending policies will include reabsorbing laid-off staff members or reinstating cut hours as part of an effort to return services to the College and the university as a whole. The funds being directed toward professors and graduate students would conceivably have a bigger impact on the larger Harvard community if applied to initiatives such...
...traffickers exploiting their desire to reach the U.K. (where obtaining refugee status is easier and brings more in aid payments). Britain has long demanded that Paris take action to prevent migrants from congregating on French shores with the aim of illegally sneaking across the Channel. (See the top 10 news stories...