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What’s the easiest way to get people to do what you say? Wait, scratch that. What’s the easiest legal way to get people to do what you say? The consensus around Harvard Yard is to offer them iPods. Take this year’s Freshman A Capella Jam. Crimson Key set up a white screen, and freshmen willing to forego shame and shake their respective groove thangs competed for one of those shiny pieces of electric goodness in a dance-off. Samir J. Paul ’10, a participant in the booty-shaking...
...through with partial derivatives just yet—the models, equations, problem sets and tests are more straightforward as you repeatedly encounter the same set ups and basic problems. For those not coming from 1011a, 1011b will have challenging math. But if you’re prepared to scratch your head a bit and give it your all, the class will be manageable. Fortunately, it’s certainly not as demanding as Professor Aleh Tsyvinski—a decent but not amazing teacher who explains basic concepts well but without any particular flair—makes...
...strength of the course is the professors, who, despite their foibles and idiosyncrasies, actually seem to care about teaching (perhaps because they’re both recent transfers from Washington University in St. Louis.) The more grandfatherly of the two, Joshua R. Sanes, has handwriting that makes chicken scratch look like artistic calligraphy. This wouldn’t be a problem except for his insistence on writing lecture notes on the fly on his tablet PC, which he projects on the screen. For extra fun, ask Sanes to pronounce the name of "Rita Levi-Montalcini," a famous Italian neurobiologist...
...today is the Fulton County Supervisor for Project Hope, a FEMA-funded mental health program within the Georgia Department of Human Resources, where Hayes now numbers fellow Katrina evacuees among his clients. "I'm going to stay in Atlanta," he says. "I would have had to start from scratch in New Orleans, so I can start from scratch here...
...prior to intercourse to stop the transmission of HIV - it's the same idea behind spermicides, which are chemical barriers to sperm entering the vagina and causing pregnancy. It's an elegantly simple approach, made even simpler by the fact that researchers didn't really have to start from scratch to come up with new anti-HIV compounds; they already have them in the ARVs, which now interrupt the virus from infecting cells at various points in its life cycle...