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...this point, is there anything we don't know about the biology of sex? Never before has a populace had as much access to information about how their bodies operate. Yet, Dr. Sharon Moalem, a Ph.D. in human physiology, believes that we deserve a one-stop primer on what goes where and why. There's a lot of science behind the book's deceptively simple title. ("See TIME's 100 Most Influential People of the Year...
...strain seems to be spreading at a time of year when the flu usually levels off. "These viruses mutate, these viruses change, these viruses can further reassort with other genetic material," said Michael Ryan, the WHO's global alert and response director. "So it would be imprudent at this point to take too much reassurance." (Read "CDC Readies Swine Flu Vaccine...
...American right at the conclusion of President Obama’s first 100 days in office is that the new president has been uniquely polarizing. The seeds for this notion were planted by a Pew Research Center poll released Apr. 2 attesting to an unprecedented 61 percentage-point gap between the levels of approval of the president expressed by Democrats and Republicans. Since then, a veritable rogues’ gallery of former Bush administration staffers, including former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, and former Deputy Assistant to the President Peter Wehner?...
...Obama to be more polarizing than Presidents Nixon, Reagan, or Bush in an Apr. 8 column for the Washington Post, and Wehner, who, in a blog post Apr. 6 for Commentary Magazine, asked, “Is a record-setting divide among Democrats and Republicans at such an early point in his presidency really the change we were told we could believe...
Given the university’s fiscal shortfall, it needs to be constantly seeking ways to cut the budget while preserving vital programs. At a point when core academic facets such as faculty hiring are being sacrificed, it seems reasonable to limit features more tangential to the academic experience. Indoor athletic facilities during the summer certainly fit this description. The ready availability of Stairmasters and treadmills was undoubtedly not the first thing on students’ minds when they decided to come to Harvard. Their temporary loss may be lamented as an inconvenience, but it will not harm the caliber...