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...paranoid just yet. Robert Wood, who is working on the Harvard fly, estimates that these kinds of miniature bug-bots won't be fine-tuned for at least five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Oct. 22, 2007 | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...assault—on campus and in the campus vicinity rose slightly from 2005 to 2006. “Our violent crime statistics have remained fairly consistent and our property crime has dramatically decreased over the last several years,” Catalano said. According to Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson, an expert on community crime, Harvard might be a unique case among American colleges when it comes to crime. “Harvard is a major tourist destination and every day, thousands of visitors descend upon campus,” said Sampson. “What that means...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Crime Rate Drops Again | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...newly armed and deputized groups have contributed to the biggest dip in violence and the lowest casualty rates since the battalion arrived a year ago. "Fewer of my guys have been killed than at any time before," Lt. Col. Robert Balcavage told TIME. Balcavage, commander of the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division, said the locally organized Sunni groups have already driven al-Qaeda out of the urban areas and into a rough no-man's land to the north, sandwiching them precariously between his paratroopers and elements of the 10th Mountain Division. In and around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Shi'a Allies | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...more somber voices come on scene. Robert B. Reich, a professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (and President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor) recently asserted in his Los Angeles Times op-ed that universities are often “investments in the lifestyle of the rich” and argued that donors should only be able to deduct half of their contributions to not-for-profits like colleges and operas...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Is Harvard good for society? | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...Quebec’s Laval University said they are on the verge of finding a vaccine for the inherited form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a condition in which a mutated protein destroys a person’s capacity for muscle control. The work conducted by Robert H. Brown Jr., associate professor at HMS, and Jean-Pierre Julien, a research chair at Laval University, is part of a growing trend in the search for vaccines against genetic diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases. Instead of inserting an active version of the harmful...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs Are Near Cure for ALS | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

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