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...need to perfect and enhance the core mission of involvement and engagement with the undergraduates of Harvard,” Purcell said. “There are undoubtedly areas in which we can break new ground, but we need to focus our main attempts on the undergraduates...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Nashville Mayor To Serve as IOP Director at Harvard | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...know you've found a perfect cultural touchstone when everyone brushes past it on the way to opposite conclusions. The tale of the Gloucester High School pregnancy pact has exposed many culprits, many causes and much confusion over what it actually tells us about anything larger than the luck and judgment of 17 now infamous teenage girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give the Gloucester Girls a Break | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...bench has to frighten any opposing defenders. And Ruud van Nistelrooy at his goal poaching best. That may be too much for its next foe, Russia. The Russians were another one of the surprise packages of the first round, outlasting Greece 1-0 and subduing Sweden with two nearly perfect goals, the second a five-pass combination that Andrei Arshavin finished to give the throng of supporters shouting "Roos-y-a" the feeling that the Mighty Bear, which won the first Euro in 1960 as the CCCP, was back. Yet coach Guus Hiddink has already warned his team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro 2008: The Energy and the Agony | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...trials entirely with computer modeling]. But I don't think it'll happen during my lifetime. People in the research community will be the first to tell you they still don't know enough about how the complex living organism works in order to duplicate it. Animals are not perfect. They're definitely not a perfect mimic of a human, but they're [still] as close as we're going to get without using a human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Does Animal Testing Tell Us? | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

...aroused by visual stimuli. "So I expect that some regions of the brain will remain masculine even in gay men," says Vilain. For something as complex as sexual orientation, it's no surprise that everything from genes to gender to environment may play a role in ultimately determining your perfect partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Gay Brain Looks Like | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

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