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...talk with community groups before taking any steps that will affect them at all, even if they are allowed under the expansion ordinance." If Harvard ignores its neighbors when it can get away with it, Sullivan reasons, it will sacrifice goodwill it may someday need to obtain a special permit. "They will have always to bear in mind how future projects might be affected if there is adverse reaction to one of their plans...
...Angeles, where its originality was challenged--concerned the induction of bone growth in humans. Announced at the beginning of May, "osteoinduction," a technique advanced by surgeons and researchers at the Medical School, uses bones from crushed cadavers to prompt bone regeneration. Since cadaver bones are easier to obtain than bone from a patient's body, osteoinduction should prove 100-per-cent effective, 35 per cent better than the old process...
...direction most people anticipate. Test scores at the right tail often overpredict the later academic performance of women and minorities compared to other students. In fact, at the right tail women perform slightly worse than their scores would predict; blacks also perform worse. Blacks may obtain grades up to half a standard deviation below what their scores would have led one to expect. Examples from the College, the Law School, and the Kennedy School support this point...
Although the Indian government-- which has governed Sikkim for the past five years--is usually reluctant to allow foreigners into the small country, Smith says the Indians desire for Western-style education will help him obtain a visa. "It's much better than just going there and knocking on some monastery door...
...further attempt to educate the Harvard community on gay issues, the GSA launched a campaign this spring to obtain an official College stance opposing discrimination against gays. The proposal made it as far as the Faculty Council; and although that body denied the need for the policy, the GSA's efforts forced gay issues into the administrative limelight...