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...Broad Institute was selected as a grant recipient through a “competitive, peer-reviewed process,” according to the NHGRI Web site...
...faith. The granddaughter of a veiled woman but thoroughly Tennessean in birth and rearing, I often struggle—here in America—to reconcile a system of doctrinal conventions with the modern life of a twenty-something college student. Striking a balance between parents’ expectations, peer pressure, personal desires, and the judging eyes of a global religion on everything from alcohol to sex to appropriate clothing is a constant and unresolved internal “jihad.”Religion is a mutable concept in the Gaber household. Having one Muslim and one Christian parent?...
...supposed to be the umbrella community, I think it’s damaging when students don’t feel like they’re a part of it for financial reasons.” The UC members also criticized the cost of printing and copying, for which many peer institutions do not charge, and the $1 laundry fee that goes to fund HoCos. Because low income students are more likely to use dorm laundry facilities, they disproportionately fund HoCo budgets, according to material distributed at the meeting. Culley also identified the difficulty of paying other fees that some students...
...Harvard Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors (DAPA) has so far allocated some of the funds given to Harvard for HoCo parties in Pforzheimer, Quincy, and Winthrop, Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...smiling every morning." Meanwhile, Amanda Sinks, 16, spouts verses from Timothy, Corinthians and James the way other teens recite rap lyrics. "There's nothing boring to me about reading the Bible every day," says Sinks, who became a Christian 17 months ago and counts a heightened ability to withstand peer pressure as one of the benefits. If things keep up this way, hanging out with God might even become cool...