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...After decades of relying on phone banks and mass-mailings to motivate voters, "the Republicans began experimenting in 2001, comparing face-to-face contacts to the other methods. They found that having a trusted neighbor or peer make the personal appeal is a far more effective way to get voters to the polls," McDonald said. "Obama has keyed into that and built his campus organizations. It's really a return to the way we used to organize in the 19th century heyday of political machines...
Black felines may have to start sharing their supernatural street cred. Scientists in South Korea--whose reputation as a cloning powerhouse took a hit in 2005 after one of its most prominent researchers was shown to have faked data on cloning human stem cells--announced in a peer-reviewed journal that they have cloned genetically modified cats that glow red under certain lights...
...million to Harvard researchers last year, is trying to ease its grant application process, even as a vote today in the U.S. House could leave its funding power nearly static after years of steady decline. Earlier this month, an NIH-chartered committee tasked with “enhancing the peer review process” released preliminary recommendations. The working group suggested shortening grant applications, creating separate awards for first-time applicants, and asking outside reviewers to examine funding requests. The committee recommendations and potential congressional budget decrease could reshape Harvard’s primary federal source. Last year, Harvard received...
...efforts have been at the cutting edge in this regard: from the establishment of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services in recent years to the online alcohol education course for incoming freshmen called AlcoholEdu, to the group of student-leaders known as Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors. Of course, some of the more draconian and less supportive measures University Hall has instituted were considerably less successful—take the College’s currently contradictory amnesty and student-group-leader responsibility policies. Nevertheless, banning hard alcohol seems to jibe with Harvard’s commitment to safe...
Harvard has once again vaulted ahead of its peers in eliminating socioeconomic barriers to attending college. This time, the University made three different improvements that totaled to a $22 million per year increase in Harvard College’s financial aid budget. The headliner was a vast increase in aid to middle and upper-middle class students. But just as important are Harvard’s termination of loan-based aid and the exclusion of home equity from aid calculations. The new policy will limit annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between...