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Koike's travel plans should worry the corporate overlords who run Japanese baseball. Matsuzaka is just the latest in a series of Japanese players who have left their home league at the peak of their career. The emigration has done wonders for the worldwide reputation of Japanese baseball players but not for baseball in Japan. While Dice-K (a fratty phonetic rendering of Daisuke that has become his new American nickname) can't blow a bubble without the media watching, attendance at Japanese professional games has sagged. TV ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular...
...said he hoped the funding will enable his center to find novel treatments for these disorders by involving researchers from a wide range of medical disciplines. “We’re really going after bipolar disorder and schizophrenia that in most part strike young people at the peak of their lives when they’re just getting off the ground,” Scolnick said. “We really can take this on now in an intense and creative way.” University Provost Steven E. Hyman, who formerly directed the National Institute of Mental...
...elections, when things started swinging to the right, I think woke up the Harvard left.” By some measures, it did. Membership in the College Democrats, the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Institute of Politics, and Students for Choice has soared again, though not back to peak numbers. However, female representation in some of these groups continues...
...most crucial element in uniting the River Houses and the new Houses, however, will be a top-notch shuttle system. Quadlings feel detached from Harvard Square and the River Houses because student shuttles do not run consistently from convenient stops and often cannot match student demand both at peak times and in the middle of the night...
...current proposal is to have one shuttle make a long loop through Allston and Cambridge and dedicate another undergraduate shuttle to follow a shorter and more direct route from the Allston Houses to Harvard Square during peak morning hours. While this is a good start, it is not enough in itself. In order for the campuses to feel connected, students will need shuttles making frequent, convenient stops all day long. Because the Larz-Andersen Bridge is vehicle accessible and the Weeks Footbridge is not, such a shuttle system will be more feasible if the new Houses are located where...