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This weekend, select members who qualified from both the men and women’s teams took part in the IC4A and ECAC championships, respectively. The men put up a strong showing on the final day to propel themselves into 22nd place—with 14 points—in a field of 54 teams. The women, who were not able to post a point in Sunday’s events, finished in 45th place with two points. In the overall team competition, Army won the men’s side with 50 points, while Pittsburgh?...
...good news for stargazers is that prices for computerized telescopes are no longer out of sight. These smart scopes use go-to technology to steer themselves to any of the thousands of heavenly objects you select using a handy remote control. Celestron's NexStar 102GT, for instance, debuting this month with a $400 price tag, includes a motorized mount to track objects as Earth rotates (so you don't have to keep recentering the scope) and a preprogrammed celestial tour to guide you to the coolest objects visible each night, based on the location you input. The bad news: Celestron...
...present, SPH is the only school at Harvard to perform research involving select agents—and even then, according to Bloom, very sparingly. Most research, he explains, is undertaken only on pathogens’ components, rather than the substances in their dangerous forms...
...broad-ranging anti-terrorist legislation passed in October of 2001, bars “restricted persons”—researchers who either have criminal backgrounds or who come from countries that the U.S. has identified as state sponsors of terrorism—from any access to select agents...
...Harvard, restrictions on who can work with select agents mean that SPH scientists from a few blackballed nations, mainly Middle-Eastern countries, aren’t able to pursue work with the most dangerous biological pathogens...