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...also discussed the increasing need for campus-wide social activities. Student members discussed an upcoming proposal to revamp the criteria for giving grants from the Student Activities Fund (SAF), which is administered jointly by the UC and the Dean’s office and supports non-alcoholic social events...
...GRE’s 55-year history, the test is likely to gain much-needed relevance as an indicator of ability to carry out graduate work. After four years of research consisting chiefly of consultation with the graduate school deans who sit on the GRE board, ETS will revamp all three sections of the test to include different types of questions. The verbal section will shift emphasis away from knowledge of vocabulary and toward critical reading skills, the quantitative section will replace some geometry questions with data interpretation, and the writing section promises to be shorter and more analytical...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be holding an official ground-breaking ceremony today for a new $350 million center dedicated to the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center—named after the donors who contributed $25 million—will completely revamp the way cardiovascular patients are treated, according to Kenneth L. Baughman, director of the advanced heart disease section at Brigham and Women’s. “This will be the first time that all cardiovascular services will be represented in one building,” said Baughman...
...come to think of all the disparate spaces as a “network,” and minds will change. “Designating a social space as such converts the thinking,” Kayden says. The penultimate step, Amenities, involves an international design competition to revamp the official Harvard chair to make it fit for outdoors. Making seating more comfortable, creative, and versatile, Kayden thinks, could be a small, cost-effective step to increase the use of outdoor spaces. Step four is the icing on the social space cake: Design. Kayden’s team has planned...
...taking from the likes of Lexus. The company is introducing a new S-Class (starting price for the flagship S500L version: around $115,00), which hits U.S. streets in January, joining two new R-Class models and a new M-Class SUV. At the same time, Mercedes has to revamp its manufacturing--no easy chore in high-cost Germany, a country whose problems in many ways reflect those of its signature car company. The task will fall to new DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche, 52, who has already worked miracles in overhauling the once disastrous Chrysler division. "In the land...