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...Valenzuela would like to obtain funds for a trial in which half the 500 participants would engage in a program of intensive mental stimulation while the rest would carry on as normal. In the meantime, though, why wait? A nightly game of chess may do nothing to thwart dementia. But unlike an experimental drug, there's no risk of its doing any harm, either...
...Massachusetts State Senate is slated to vote next Wednesday on public records legislation that could radically alter private universities’ and their police forces’ exemption from releasing internal, crime-related documents. Senate Bill 1735 would force private universities and hospitals to release confidential documents obtained by special state police officers to the public, according to the bill. Special state police officers, like those of Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), are not public officers but do have the power to make arrests and obtain and exercise search warrants. If passed through the Senate, the House and into...
...junior faculty have left before they have come up for tenure,” he said. “It’s a combination of two things—they get tenure offers elsewhere and there is a widespread perception that tenure is difficult to obtain at Harvard...
...online, saving the College and its students time, effort, and—in the former’s case—money. This new development has been positive, but it is not without its flaws. Students who change their schedules during shopping week are vexed by the need to obtain an entirely new set of signatures from their professors, inconveniencing both students and professors, and making schedule modifications unnecessarily complicated. Switching from print to electronic signatures would remedy this problem. Rather than requiring professors and advisers to physically sign paper copies of students’ electronic study cards, the Office...
...White House officials knowledgeable about the FISA process and NSA's surveillance capability say the problem isn't simply the time it takes to obtain a warrant. If it were to be altered, FISA must be changed "for a different sort of coverage by NSA," explains one administration official. "FISA was very much focused on getting one particular guy," says this administration official. "It was very much like a wiretap in a criminal case. You go to court and you have probable cause to believe a person has committed a crime. So you go to FISA and get a wiretap...