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...precursor to the Core curriculum was the system known as General Education (Gen Ed), adopted in 1949 during the presidency of James B. Conant...
Such is the premise of Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of An American Terrorist by Alston S. Chase ’57, who contends that the college’s General Education Program, the precursor to today’s Core Curriculum, may have pushed Kaczynski into his bombing campaign. The Core has been long-reviled some students, but could its 1950s predecessor have moulded one of the most disaffected and violent minds in recent memory? Chase has long answered an emphatic “yes,” having initially floated his theory in a June 2000 Atlantic...
These bacterial molecules prompt the cells to release a protein called interferon, which alerts the immune system to possible microbial invaders. A precursor of these molecules is found...
...discovered, helped him understand computers--the science of physiology translated into that of networks. In 1985 he founded one of the world's first commercial Internet ventures, an online community called the Well. Membership cost all of $2 a month, and the Well was a huge hit, a precursor of every online business from Amazon.com to eBay. Brilliant had established a reputation for seeing the future before anyone else and being able to make money...
...WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR: Inspectors hope to find and destroy what remains of Saddam's chemical arsenal: 3.9 tons of VX nerve agent, some 550 mustard-gas shells and about 150 sarin-gas rockets. Also on their list: more than 3,000 tons of precursor chemical ingredients and any processing equipment Iraq could use to rebuild its arsenal...