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...deer were not shot by the hunters in the fall, most of them would starve to death during the winter. Deer in Massachusetts are vastly overpopulated, as dense as 40 deer per square mile in some areas. The hunting season is overseen by the Department of Fish and Game to ensure that the population is culled to match the habitat’s capacity to sustain it. On the other hand, death by slug or buckshot is neither pretty nor peaceful. And sometimes the deer is only wounded, not killed. The volunteers assisting the paraplegic hunters must then chase after...
Many of the acknowledged cases of fraud concerned spare parts for NASA airplanes, which could have led to safety problems if they had not been caught. Moreover, such problems erode the public’s trust in a part of the government that has overseen some of the most inspirational feats of engineering and triumphs of science in the past half century. Americans are losing their sense of wonder about outer space, which bodes poorly for NASA and the future of American space exploration...
...University-wide office will be staffed with a professional conflict resolution expert and overseen by a faculty committee. While it will not replace ombuds offices at a number of Harvard’s schools, Ehrenreich’s will provide a central resource and report back to the administration about general patterns that deserve University-wide response...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council has come a long, long way. The current leadership has overseen accomplishments like the creation of the First-Year Social Committee, the formation of the Harvard Concert Commission and a complete overhaul of council technology. In unprecedented fashion, it provided undergraduates with a formalized avenue of voicing student input on the selection of the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and in conjunction with the Office of the President organized the most successful Springfest to date. With the approval and support of the Administration, the council also established a new Student-Faculty Advisory Committee...
News of his progress has gripped the paralysis community. Experts rightly caution that one patient's improvement hardly guarantees the same for others. Nonetheless, Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.,where Reeve's therapy is overseen, has been flooded with e-mails and phone calls from others with spinal injuries. Doctors there stress that everything from individual anatomy to the extent of the injury to access to rehabilitative care--and Reeve has had the best--determines one's prognosis...