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That kind of redesign isn't possible today, but it may not be far off. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School have already developed a way to equip a benign virus with genetic material that codes for muscle growth, and they have injected the virus into mice. The animals quickly bulk up by as much as 20%, becoming not just bigger but stronger. The researchers have developed other techniques to block cellular signals that would otherwise cause muscles to atrophy, allowing the new mass to be retained even without exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Anyone Ever Run A 3 Minute Mile? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Harvard's vice president for finance and other central administrators discussed a redesign of the University-wide System for Travel and Reimbursement (STAR) with the Faculty Council Wednesday...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Administrators Discuss Changing Travel Reimbursement System | 4/7/2000 | See Source »

...promised us that the implementation of these systems would be easy, and it certainly hasn't been. One component of ADAPT, the travel reimbursement system, provides unacceptable performance, and a major redesign is underway. But most of the systems perform reasonably well, and we are learning to use their powerful features more effectively as time goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

Back in 1960, an obscure Dutch cultural critic named Constant Nieuwenhuys predicted that someday we would all become architects. Stuck in a world where everything looked the same, he suggested, we would be so alienated from our environment by technology that we would constantly redesign the space around us just to recover the joy of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Redesigning Of America | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...city's high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin, is currently trying to finalize an important redesign of its internal "house"--or school-within-a-school--structure for next year...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In First Major Vote, New City Council Passes Development Moratorium | 1/26/2000 | See Source »

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