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...During this global-warming boot camp, Gore stands in front of his cavalry for about 12 hours and explains the slide show presentation he gives in the movie. The volunteers are not required to follow a set script, but Gore offers specific advice on how to engage the audience and use metaphors to explain complex scientific information. A scientist on Gore's staff is present during the training to answer any technical questions posed by the volunteers, and a professional speech trainer offers public speaking advice...
...Allston residents’ hope that University officials would adapt the master plan more directly to neighborhood concerns. “It’s a difficult time in the process. The neighborhood wants specifics but Harvard is not in a position at this point in time to present the specifics,” he said. Allston resident Matthew Snyder expressed frustration with the University’s response. “I come to these meetings for answers. And I didn’t get any,” Snyder said. “I think there?...
...week. The Board of Overseers, whose approval is needed to select a president, convenes this weekend for a regularly scheduled meeting. Some had speculated that the search committee—comprised of the six members of the Corporation plus three members of the Board of Overseers—would present a name for the overseers’ approval at that meeting...
...disputed paintings stem in its “Pollock Matters” exhibit opening in September. Nancy Netzer, the museum’s director and professor of art history at Boston College, said that the works still merit exhibition and further investigation. “Our aim is to present all of the information that we have,” Netzer said. “There is a lot of conflicting evidence that we want to bring to the table. It is important to engage with other scholars who may have never seen these works before.” According...
...House policy report is precisely the type of research that is currently being harmed by the President’s arbitrary limitation on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,” the authors wrote in their letter. Although reprogramming adult cells into embryonic stem cells may present new therapeutic opportunities in the future, the new process still contains major complications that prevent it from being a viable source of embryonic stem cells, Cowan said. He explained that the fused, reprogrammed cells contain twice the number of chromosomes as normal cells and therefore do not function like normal...