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Even plaintiffs' lawyers concede that food litigation is not exactly parallel to tobacco cases. "There are obvious causation issues," says Richard Daynard, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, who was active in bringing lawsuits against Big Tobacco companies. "Someone who eats often at McDonald's also probably doesn't eat well at home and may lead a sedentary lifestyle." Food also has health benefits. But "there is no such thing as a healthy diet of smoking or smoking in moderation," says Daynard...
...with a team,” says Menand, who will lecture on modern texts in the new humanities course while Greenblatt covers early modern texts.Group-taught science courses are usually divided topically, however.Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue says the communal efforts of teaching science parallel those of researching it. “Science today is really an effort of...a community of scientists from multiple fields,” he says of the mission behind Life Sciences 1a. While Amy T. Wu ’09 says her 1b course could have been taught...
...space given to male versus female faculty members. The survey will be similar to the one examining internal bias conducted by MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins in 1999.“I think this is a huge step,” Lamont says. “The fact that a parallel study will be conducted and that there is a structure to do it is humongous.” If data collection sounds less than revolutionary, those involved in the project say it is essential to bringing Harvard up to speed with peer institutions.“Data can sound very...
When I came in a variety of groups ran parallel to each other. The first group I met was the international set, primarily from M.I.T. and the Harvard Business School. They held lively parties–probably the liveliest in Cambridge. As an aside, the members of The Harvard Advocate certainly knew how to party as well. The third was composed of Horace Reynolds, the translator, George Palmer, the poet who published under the name of George Anthony, Gunther Neufeld, an art critic from Germany, George Burroughs, once the head of the WPA Writers Project in Hawaii who had become...
...Western and Islamic worlds after September 11th. Eliza Griswold, another Nieman fellow and a freelance journalist whose byline has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Magazine, will study the antagonism of Christianity and Islam in nations along the Tenth Parallel. International fellows researching the Middle East include Finnish editor Patsy Nakell, who will study the early 20th century history of American policy in the region, and Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press photographer from Germany, who will study culture, history, and gender issues in the Middle East. Other fellows will focus...