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...short weeks, I will become a Harvard graduate. During the last four years an enormous change has taken place on campus, and yet, as is the nature of college, few students took note. And yet, this change in the status of Radcliffe—one of the oldest and most revered American educational institutions for women—has not, unfortunately, been accompanied by a change in the status of women at Harvard...
...Tadpole itself, which looked just fine and about as astronomers had expected it to, but the background of the photo. It was filled with other galaxies. Thousands of them, including one, a faint red smudge in one corner of the picture, that probably is among the oldest objects ever witnessed, formed within about a billion years of the Big Bang itself...
...Ralph Ibson, vice president of government affairs at the National Mental Health Association, agrees. "Parity is a broad way to address the second-rate way in which mental health is treated in terms of both insurance coverage and federal funding." The NMHA, which is the country's largest and oldest nonprofit group addressing issues facing people with mental illness, issued a statement Tuesday, praising the President's proposal, but urging Congress to provide full coverage to all mental health disorders. "We strongly support the Senate measure," says Ibson, "which provides a prohibition on discrimination by diagnosis. To limit parity...
TUNISIA Djerba Evidence Authorities confirmed that an explosion that killed 16 people outside Africa's oldest synagogue was deliberate and said the act was planned by a man suspected of links to international Islamic groups. Investigators said the blast, caused by an exploding fuel truck, was similar to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. Police arrested an uncle of the truck driver, accusing him of complicity in the incident...
...Pitches—the University’s oldest women’s a capella group—frequently has to explain its name while on tour, according to Pitches President Vivian Lien...