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...attention once again to the need of the University to communicate with the residents of the area if it wants to cultivate good relations. Harvard has already talked about putting future programs into place, benefiting residents in the future. Among these was a Harvard Allston Education Portal which would offer after school tutoring and lectures. These ideas are clear steps indicating that Harvard is proactively trying to contribute to the community. Now as construction is a long-term project the most important and present need is for Harvard to work together with Allston as much as is practically feasible. This...
...York Psychologist Mildred Newman reports that a close friend was interviewed for the Kinsey report on women. The friend, who led a robust and varied sex life, gave chaste and virginal answers because she was not willing to let anyone know how she really behaved. Nowadays many people may offer up attitudes designed to depict themselves as properly liberated. Anthropologist Lionel Tiger, while studying a kibbutz in Israel, noticed that kibbutzniks whose daily conduct was clearly liberal almost always checked off conservative attitudes, and many conservative men and women reported liberal attitudes. This led to Tiger's First...
...reproduced brethren. That makes advocates happy: Cloning enables the livestock industry to do in a fraction of the time what breeders have been doing throughout history, narrowing the gene pool to its most desirable genes. Beyond that, say cloners, future benefits include production of genetically engineered animals that could offer a variety of benefits - more nutrient-rich milk, for example, for people without adequate access to food...
...furious Dos Santos, who was woken by the raid, said the soldiers apologized, and offered him $100 to buy some candy for his children. "I'm still traumatized," he says. "They cannot just enter a house at night unless they see the suspect run in." He warns that if such raids continue "in breach of human rights, they will lose the support of the people." The clumsy offer of compensation did little to ease his anger. "I did not accept the money," he says...
...Riyadh, Alexandria, the Ganges, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Washington.Of course, with worldly knowledge there’s always a catch: if you don’t want to sound like the name-dropping tool at a Rhodes Scholar cocktail schmooze, you’ve got to be ready to offer a little something more than a list of proper nouns. And sometimes, in the wake of “God Bless This Mess,” Crow’s erudite message gets a little garbled. It’s not clear, for instance, whether “Gasoline?...