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Adams House has announced a committee to help select a new master that will convene for the first time this week...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: Committee to Pick New Adams Master | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

BoardPlus, the program which gives students $50 each semester to use at select dining locations, was the second phase in card services. Its goal, Mayer says, is to afford students greater flexibility in what and where they...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON CASH | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

...alum asked to donate a special label wine with the Harvard shield, related imagery and name for select alumni events, Fineberg said...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Strikes Name, Shield From Alcohol Advertising | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...first, officials told TIME, the inspectors carried the scanners around the country in backpacks. By the end of 1997, however, Butler and his colleagues were worried that it was becoming too dangerous. A search by the Iraqis would have revealed that select team members were wired up with special recording and eavesdropping devices. Another problem was the sheer volume of information that was flooding in over these taps. The British, who had been deciphering the tapes, were tired of digging through thousands of hours of Arabic conversations--99% of which was useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bugging Saddam | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...what doctors intend is not necessarily what's going to happen. Indeed, the technology that permitted the Collinses family to pick the sex of their child was first used to select for health, not gender per se. Adapting a technique used on livestock, researchers at the Genetics & IVF Institute in Fairfax took advantage of a simple rule of biology: girls have two X chromosomes, while boys have one X and one Y. The mother has only Xs to offer, so the balance of power lies with the father--specifically with his sperm, which brings either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designer Babies | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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