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Sometimes life is unfair--even for members of the Undergraduate Council. Last week, we criticized Campus Life Committee co-chair Rudd W. Coffey '97 for taking credit for something he did not do. Well, after a Harvard administrator recanted, it turns out that Coffey deserves partial credit...
...some researchers, including Wennberg and Anderson, have been able to take partial measurements at greater altitudes using balloons. "Balloons have been used for years to go to 120,000 feet," says Podolske, "but there are three limitations. You have no control over where the balloon will go, you often have to wait for the right winds and you only get a vertical profile [because the balloon goes up and down...
Cummings signed, was formally diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and says he spent the next five years in an experiment with a powerful antipsychotic drug. He suffered bad side effects: partial blindness, impotence, constant migraines. He says the researchers at the VA never allowed him to see an eye doctor and wouldn't let him change drugs. Only in 1987, after complaining for years, did Cummings finally manage to get out of the experiment and see other doctors. "My vision came back but not as good as I expected," he says. The VA last week said a "cursory glance...
Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan said, "I can't judge if there's a problem in the pool or a partial blindness to qualifications...
...must confess to being partial to both millionaire venture capitalists (and others who feed from the investment banking trough) and liberal scions of political dynasties. Thus have the two candidates for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 and his Republican rival, W. Mitt Romney, been characterized...