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Thomas R. Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a leading contender in Harvard's presidential search, has withdrawn his name from the race...
Cech's surprise decision seems to throw the presidential search into limbo, as an announcement had been expected as early as this week. The Board of Overseers, whose approval is needed to select a president, convenes this weekend for a regularly scheduled meeting. Some had speculated that the search committee—comprised of the six members of the Corporation plus three members of the Board of Overseers—would present a name for the overseers’ approval at that meeting...
...University seeks to revitalize its science offerings with an expansion into Allston and the creation of interdisciplinary science initiatives, Cech's science training appeared appealing to several search committee members...
...recent weeks, search committee members had expressed particularly strong enthusiasm about the candidacies of Cech and Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust. Provost Steven E. Hyman is expected to remain on the search committee’s list of candidates until the end, but sources familiar with the committee’s activities said his inclusion reflects recognition of his half-decade as the University’s number-two administrator—and does not necessarily indicate serious consideration. Law School Dean Elena Kagan has long been mentioned as a serious contender...
...Even more revealing than when we search for diets are the kinds of diet solutions we search for. During the first weeks of the year, diet searches outnumber their closest self-improvement counterpart, "exercise," by 250%. And the list of most popular dieting queries are riddled with quick fixes such as "diet pills" and "the sacred heart diet," an urban-legend diet promising a 10-pound weight loss in seven days. This year even saw the shortest diet query in search engine history, the "three-hour diet." A look at the top ten searches containing the term "diet...