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Some faculty, like Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, insist that the school should retain its traditional focus on Christianity...
...library will retain all the items currently on reserve, in addition to 12,000 to 13,000 titles that have been “hand-selected based on how heavily they have been used and how important they’ve been to Hilles borrowers,” said Heather E. Cole, librarian of the Hilles and Lamont Libraries...
...dinosaur got from year to year--the scientists were able to estimate that T. rex packed on weight at a blistering pace, sometimes as much as 5 lbs. a day. That also supports the idea of warm-bloodedness, which means baby T. rex had to have a way to retain body heat. As the dinosaur shot toward adulthood, however, it would have developed the opposite problem: shedding the excess heat pumped out by an active, 11,000-lb. body. Norell and Xu theorize that T. rex probably lost its feathers as it matured, just as growing elephants lose their body...
...Harvard should go out of its way not only to hire but also to retain its senior women faculty, making the same efforts as it does to retain its male ‘stars,’” she wrote...
...always been a lair and a stirrer. You can see it in the letters he wrote to his school newspaper, urging people to "have a go." It's a "go hard or go home" ethos that he seems to retain. He's employed an inventive cheekiness working on election campaigns in his youth. Out on the town, he can be a show-off and a charmer. At an Indian restaurant one evening a decade ago, he launched into a funny and impromptu toast for a stranger celebrating his birthday at another table. But he also has a darker, brooding - some...