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...summer Olympics, a city must house about 15,000 athletes, coaches and officials. Under the BOC plan, Harvard, MIT and Boston University would provide the nucleus of the Olympic village, converting dorms to house the participants...
Harvard could be the nucleus of the 2008 Summer Olympic village if a group of Boston community leaders succeeds in bringing the Games to the area, University officials said yesterday...
...cortex, an all-important part of the brain responsible for thought and language. Last week researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presented evidence that may pinpoint a spot in the cortex where dyslexia originates. It is an area of tissue called the medial geniculate nucleus (MGN), which affects hearing by acting as a relay station for auditory signals...
...Some people think that every galaxy at its nucleus harbors a black hole," Geller says...
Though precedented, The University Campaign--a five-year effort aimed at raising nearly $2.1 billion--will almost certainly succeed, and even surpass expectations for its success. Even before it was announced, the campaign had accumulated a nucleus fund of just over $652n million, more than a quarter of its target. In all likelihood, a healthy infusion of cash will keep the $6 billion coffers of the world's wealthiest university brimming. And that is good...