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...result, Moses immediately began creating programs designed to foster closer ties between upperclass and first-year students. He initiated the Prefect Program, which links first-year entryways to two upperclass students. In addition, Moses instituted the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP), prompted by an Outward Bound course he took before becoming dean...

Author: By Michele F. Forman, | Title: Last Year for a First-Year Dean | 4/9/1991 | See Source »

...these normal cells may turn tumorous and begin to divide very rapidly, expanding to the size of a pin prick. The normal cells that surround the tumor get pushed outward by the proliferating cancer cells. There are two likely outcomes from this condition: Figure 3A or Figure...

Author: By Oliver C. Chin, | Title: How a Tumor Grows: The Harvard Story | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

...child is a precise metaphysician. He (or she) writes down name, house number, street, town, state, ZIP code, country . . . and then, to be exact, "Planet Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Bright Cave Under the Hat | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Judging from all outward appearances, Follen St. could be any residential roadway in any suburban neighborhood in the U.S. But area residents say that they have had one constant reminder this year that Follen St. is not just anywhere, that it is right next-door to the nation's oldest institution of higher education...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Neighborhood Fights Law School Club | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

...controversial report suggests the disease often begins in younger women who have no outward sign of bone problems. The findings, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team from the University of British Columbia, raise the possibility that more than half of all healthy women in their 30s and 40s could be suffering from bone damage as a result of subtle, undetected disturbances in their menstrual cycles. But some experts doubt the conclusions and call for follow-up trials before doctors change their approach to the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: When Bones Are Brittle | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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