Word: permanente
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A committee including some former members of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees will begin meeting in October to start the search for the Institute's first permanent dean.
Dunn says she does not anticipate inviting Harvard to hit up Radcliffe alumnae for money during her tenure, but when a permanent dean is chosen, the choice to continue the arrangement will fall to her shoulders.
And brain researchers might never have picked up on the fragmentary nature of memory without their studies of people whose memory has been damaged by illness or injury. The most celebrated such individual is H.M. In 1953, when he was 27, he had drastic brain surgery to cure severe epilepsy...
That sort of impairment has convinced scientists that the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus are key in transforming short-term memories into permanent ones, and also that permanent memories are stored somewhere else; otherwise, H.M. would have lost them too.
More concerns were raised last month when a congressional-subcommittee hearing learned that DTP, a combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), is still on the market. As far back as 1994 the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences warned that DTP was responsible for...