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...Like his rodent rival, Mickey Mouse, and those other critters from Disneyland, Asterix now boasts a theme park outside Paris. Over the past decade, three live-action Asterix movies have hammered Hollywood films in French cinemas; the most recent one, Asterix at the Olympic Games, was one of the top-grossing movies of 2008. And while the U.S. has remained largely immune to the Gaul's charms, his celebrity has been recognized by at least one venerable American publication: Asterix made the cover of a 1991 TIME magazine special edition on "the new France." (Read "Can Asterix Conquer Europe...
...whose progresses have an uncommonly significant effect on the community, will not be stalled in a manner that is unduly harmful to community residents. We can see the effects of poor financial planning simply by observing the pernicious effects of our stymied science-complex initiative, where plot vacancies and rodent infestations reveal the real implications of a stalled and invasive construction project. Arguments that the economic downturn affects Harvard just like any corporation or institution or that they were pressured to spend by self-interested individuals are unconvincing and do not exonerate Harvard of its responsibility to surrounding communities. Even...
...roommates of the rodent-loving student, however, were not as enthusiastic to find permanent crashers on their bookshelf. “They just came in. It was kind of [by] fiat, they just kind of brought them in, ” said one roommate...
...mythology around this...has stuck this issue with Harvard,” said Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, Harvard’s director of community relations for Boston, at Wednesday’s construction management meeting. The University and the City are planning to address the rodent issue by providing local residents with tough plastic trash containers by the summer’s end to prevent rodent proliferation—not as a result of “any of this [recent] foolishness or hysteria,” McCluskey said at the meeting, but rather because it represented...
...study and a consultant to AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, which produces cediranib. “This was a bench to bedside and back to bench journey,” added Batchelor, referring to the return to the laboratory after the drug’s clinical trial. The researchers used rodent models with three different kinds of glioblastoma and placed a window in the animals’ cranium so they could observe the brain tumor—which they labeled with a fluorescent reporter—while the animals were still alive. They found that the mice treated with the drug survived longer...