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...true social revolution, or at least social progress, at Harvard. If the Dean of Students can be persuaded to help with a housing search for new social clubs, perhaps the University can be persuaded to help solicit funds from concerned alumni. In fact, taking other schools as a pattern, Harvard could (gasp!) build a legitimate student center or perhaps even buy a bar and make it 18 and over. What the heck, we already own a $25 million share in the House of Blues. All that is required is a little motivation or, in the case...
Sinclair was a key player in the year-long controversy over allegations of on-the-job discrimination against Harvard security guards by their supervisors. Sinclair frequently defended the department's conduct to the guards, and a union steward at one point charged him with condoning a "pattern of retaliation" against employees who made discrimination charges...
...stunning announcement three years ago, King unveiled evidence that such a rogue gene exists. By analyzing chromosomes from women in families repeatedly hit by cancer, the scientist discovered that the victims shared on chromosome 17 a pattern of genetic markers -- stretches of identical DNA -- not found in those free of the disease. This did not mean that the markers caused cancer but that the gene responsible lurked somewhere nearby on the same chromosome...
After joining King's study group, Fisher learned that she carried the telltale pattern of markers. The agonizing question: What should she do? Huge numbers of women will eventually face the same dilemma. The inherited form of breast cancer accounts for 5% to 10% of cases, says King, meaning that "there might be half a million women who either already have or will develop the disease because of this gene." Carriers have an 85% chance of getting breast cancer...
...says he got the idea from a friend, presumably male, who told him about an incident in the workplace. That was the seed, and then Crichton cogitated, watered it as you would a Ficus, which seems to be his method. The result is provocative, which seems to be his pattern. To read it in this charged climate makes a man want to holler, "Slap leather, boys, and head for that line of trees!" Acknowledges Crichton: "It has been suggested that now is the time for that long-postponed trip to the Australian outback." Instead he is bracing for the criticism...