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Harvard's rulebook for professors, Privileges and Benefits, doesn't stipulate that professors must perform any particular set of duties. There is no requirement, for example, that a professor teach students. To a large extent, professors work out their own responsibilities. "Full professors are generally expected to negotiate with the chairman," said Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, many of whose professors do consulting work for outside firms. He added that a typical teaching load for a full-time professor is two full courses a year...
Burgeoning factionalism has a healthy side: it draws fresh people into public activity. Yet no matter how well it satisfies particular narrow causes, sooner or later it must damage larger public values. Eventually, as Political Scientist Norman Ornstein of Washington's Catholic University puts it, "You have too many decision makers and too many groups trying to exercise a veto over decisions, and with that you reach a paralysis in government." In the extreme, there could be worse things than paralyzed government. There could come a breaking of that basic spirit of accommodation and mutual respect that...
...orders descend on the cambists - some working in money-trading firms, many employed by banks, a growing number directly for multinationals. Though they work on order, they have some latitude. If a multinational orders its bank to sell, say, $1 million for German marks on a particular day, in Europe it is up to the bank's trader whether to let them all go at once or sell $500,000 in the morning, the rest in the afternoon. In New York, a trader must execute the order at a time and price that the client specifies...
...enzyme did indeed break the DNA of invading organisms into fragments. Most important, Smith was able to show that everytime the enzyme found a particular sequence of the chemicals that make...
Scientists have since found about 100 restriction enzymes that act at particular sites on the strands...