Word: reductionism
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Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Michael D. Smith has expressed support for a plan to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions, following a private meeting last Thursday with members of a task force charged with proposing gas reduction strategies.
Sure enough, house prices stopped rising in 2006, and now banks and brokerages are taking huge write-downs tied to the mortgage-backed instruments that kept the Ponzi-loan machine oiled. Economists are furiously debating whether we're on the brink of a full-fledged "Minsky moment," in which lending...
Women in college shouldn’t have to make the choice between paying for birth control and paying for textbooks. This may well become the case, however, as many of the three million female college students nationwide who regularly use oral contraceptives have seen their pills’ cost...
The stem-cell announcement also brought happiness to many politicians, especially Republicans. It filled them with the hope that the whole messy issue could go away. If stem cells, or something like them, can be obtained without the use of embryos, that eliminates the supposed ethical problem that led President...
Iraqi civilian casualties have also declined dramatically. According to the Associated Press 750 civilians were killed in October - still a high number, but down well over 50% from late last year. Much of that decline reflects the declining influence of the Sunni terrorist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, and a...