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...another wall is crumbling—this time, not between countries, but in the domain of scientific research.New Internet-based journals are challenging the status quo by publishing works that have not yet passed the usual, rigorous peer-review system, giving any cyber-citizen the power to appraise many novel scientific inquiries. And it’s all too easy to underestimate the potential for science this experiment brings.The hermetic process of traditional peer-review does little to facilitate free intellectual dissemination. Scientific manuscripts are typically reviewed by a small number of anonymous experts, who have a throttlehold on whom...
Most undergraduate theses languish on the shelves of the Harvard Archives, but a thesis by Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan ’02 is the seed of a novel that will soon be headed to a bookstore near...
Ganeshananthan, like her mentor, has worked at big-name publications before her first novel hits bookshelves. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect, and the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...carry out its mission in today’s political climate. Nevertheless, there was something surreal about a weekend of paeans to public service that coincided with reporters in Washington digging through Foley’s perverted instant messages. Surreal, but not especially novel. Except perhaps for a few months following 9/11, politically interested people born in the 1980s have never known honorable politics. We were weaned on Monica Lewinsky; next came Florida, Iraq, Katrina, Abramoff, William Jefferson stuffing cash into his freezer, and partisanship so vicious it turns off even the proudly Machiavellian students at the IOP. JFK?...
...officials say they are atuned to privacy concerns and can put into place procedures that will protect the information of the card carrier. "A lot of creative things can be done with that number in a spy novel," says Kathy Kraninger, director of DHS's newly created Screening Coordination Office, which will manage the program. But in reality, she says, it will be exceedingly difficult for a potential identity thief to crack the government computer and match up the number to extract your information...