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Adams House will bar non-residents from its dining hall Wednesday nights in an effort to reduce crowding and build community, the House announced last week. The Wednesday “community nights,” which begin today, come in response to dinner-time congestion that frequently plagues Adams. The dining hall—built to accommodate 220—consistently draws swarms of non-residents due to the House’s convenient location. “We’re in the eye of the storm,” said David A. Seley, the Adams dining hall...
...retirement incentive plan comes to fruition, it will not be the first time Harvard has offered to increase pension benefits for staffers who retire early. During an economic recession in 1991, the University created an early retirement incentive program for all non-faculty employees over the age of 55 who had worked for the University for at least 10 years...
...South Korea is leading: the cloning - and sale - of pet dogs. Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 by Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, scientists around the world have cloned everything from cats, monkeys and fruit flies to horses, rabbits, cows and wolves - mostly for non-commercial uses. Dogs are notoriously complex to clone, and Korea is the only country where researchers have successfully done the deed. (See pictures of presidential First Dogs...
...Nisenholtz says the Times is the top-selling periodical on at the Kindle Store, though a non-disclosure agreement with Amazon prevents him from quantifying that statement. "We continue to see an explosion of form factors," he added. "But I don't see anything right now that is bursting through like the iPhone did or the Kindle can potentially do going forward." (The Times' iPhone app has been downloaded more than a million times, he said.) (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...school’s dean Julio Frenk wrote in an e-mail to faculty and staff on Friday. In an effort to meet the challenges posed by the financial crisis, Frenk wrote that the University had also issued a directive in December to freeze all salaries for faculty and non-union staff. In line with the University’s recommendations, the School of Public Health will form a committee to review the posting of non-research funded job posts. “This is indeed an opportunity to look at our staffing levels and structures, in order to make...