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...alleged infractions ends today. After voting for the Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential elections closes at 11:59 a.m., the three tickets of Grimland-Hadfield, Haddock-Riley, and Voith-Gadgil can only await the results with bated breath. FM chatted with former UC insiders to see if they could predict the outcome—let’s see how they stack up: “I think that Dean Gross will throw his hat in the ring and pull off a last-minute upset. He’s been eyeing that job for years...
...researcher of his age group in the field, Kosslyn wrote, and is also unusually young to be awarded tenure at Harvard. Buckner has distinguished himself through innovative research techniques in fMRI and his work on the brain and memory. In one study, Buckner found that it was possible to predict, on average, what new information a research subject would remember later by observing certain pathways in brain functioning. Buckner said in an interview yesterday that he has also focused on the effects of aging and disease on memory. Buckner observed that the plaques which cause Alzheimer’s disease...
...Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, his style never goes it alone. At the annual trade talks, he and 20 other heads of state don the traditional garb of the host city, which last week entailed wearing South Korean hanbok in Pusan, below. Next time the U.S. is host, we predict polychrome cowboy boots...
...teenagers might engage in riskier sex if they knew that emergency contraception was available, even though the study found that adolescents could use the drug appropriately. The GAO called this rationale “novel,” as the FDA consistently uses the behavior of older adolescents to predict the behavior of younger adolescents when making decisions concerning teenage use of drugs. While the FDA claims to be unconvinced by the drug studies, 39 other countries—including the United Kingdom, Canada, and India—have deemed this drug safe for over-the-counter sales. There...
...Hong Kong microbiologist Kennedy] Shortridge is convinced that the avian virus is still circulating in the environment. "I don't think we're out of the woods yet," says Shortridge. [Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist Keiji] Fukuda agrees: "You would be a fool to predict what the virus is going to do next. I'm equally prepared for this thing to disappear as I am to hear one day when I walk into the office, 'Oh, did you hear? There's another 10 cases-or 100 cases.'" -TIME...