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...editorial last February, the Crimson Staff criticized Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam for his outlandishly priced $464.50 coursepack. Going back to the drawing board, Putnam instructed his assistants compiling next year’s coursepack to scour Harvard’s electronic resources. The result? After a few weeks of effort, the same 1000 page coursepack is now priced under $200. If only other professors would catch...
...success that Robert Putnam has had in reducing the price of his coursepack suggests that, with some effort, TFs and professors could save students substantial amounts of money. There are a number of simple ways that coursepacks can be made cheaper. Harvard already pays huge sums for copyrights on its online resources. Professors who incur copyright costs by including in their coursepacks newspaper or journal articles (almost invariably available through e-resources) can save students money simply by linking to the articles. And more than just articles are available online. Last year, Environmental Science and Public Policy 10 did without...
...Robert M. Koenig ’06-’07 described seeing “the plume of steam from where the lava was still pouring into the ocean” on one outing. “It was beautiful,” he said...
...Because the chimp is so close, its physiology is remarkably similar, so that provides us with a way of looking at ourselves in a different context,” said Robert H. Waterston, chair of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, who worked on the project. “And more importantly, in places where the chimp differs from humans in physiology and response to disease, we can use genetic differences to figure out what is going...
...meet the law’s conditions, Rubin is hosting a panel at Vanderbilt this week on the constitutionality of Constitution Day. He has invited Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), who inserted the law as an amendment to an unrelated spending bill approved by Congress last year...