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...impending move, likely to occur by summer, has already posed an “enormous distraction” to research, said one professor, whose laboratory, like that of Maniatis, is housed in Fairchild...

Author: By Esther I. Yi and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Profs Weigh Leaving Harvard over Allston Slowdown | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...begun to occur to the financial industry and the central banks of the G7 and a number of smaller Western European countries that if some of the nations in Eastern Europe default on their debt, the world may look as it did three decades ago when several Latin American nations struggled to make payments on their sovereign obligations. (See pictures of printing money in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sending the Financial World to Save Eastern Europe | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...infamous H5N1 bird flu. The antibodies attach to a part of the virus that is less mutation-prone than the section targeted by current vaccines (which must be redeveloped every year to counter the virus' changes). Tests on mice produced promising results, although clinical trials with humans won't occur for a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...decided to sue Skull and Bones, Yale has announced that it will delay building its two new Colleges (i.e. Houses), and Yale’s administration has announced that staff layoffs are inevitable. Which raises the question of which will come first: Harvard admitting that layoffs will most likely occur, Dunster’s walkthroughs and Lowell’s inexplicably placed hallways and fire-doors getting gutted out and redesigned, or the Fly coming out and admitting that they’ve been hiding Geronimo’s skull all this time...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies (and Stanford) | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...locations, which means we are less willing to dismiss them outright. Also, because we can't trace the content of dreams to an external source - because that content seems to arise spontaneously and from within - we can't explain it the way we can explain random thoughts that occur to us during waking hours. If you find yourself sitting at your desk and thinking about a bomb exploding in your office, you might say to yourself, "Oh, I watched 24 last night, so I'm just remembering that episode." But people have a harder time making sense of dreams. Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dreams Mean Less Than We Think | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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