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...Pioneers had to leave comfortable corporate or academic jobs in order to solve problems that have confounded others for years. "You could hear the people at Caltech snicker,'' says Xencor co-founder Bassil Dahiyat, recalling his graduate days at California Institute of Technology when he proposed that since protein shapes vary according to their functions, one could create new disease-fighting proteins by first imagining their shape. Looks like he may be right - Dahiyat now says...
Enisco says she suspects that WWD’s rankings were actually “looking to shape student fashion. They pretend to be listening to you but are really telling you how to dress—by ranking Brown first.” But ‘real life’ intervenes, as both Zhu and Encisco have found that environmental hazards need to be taken into wardrobe consideration, be it in the lab or out in the harsh Cambridge winter elements. One fashion truth that Zhu, Encisco, WWD, and FM can all agree upon: Cambridge?...
Members of one of Harvard Law School’s largest student organizations say they are being shut out of discussions on changes to an introductory course on legal research and writing that could shape the group’s future...
...events and activities. Considering that tickets to campus shows are significantly discounted from those for public shows, we recognize that making a profit is an enormously lofty goal, but it is on the horizon—whereas just a couple of years ago, simply getting any concert to take shape seemed doubtful...
UNAUTHORIZED LEAKS Two months before the election, unnamed CIA, Pentagon and State Department professionals began grumbling to reporters that Iraq was in much worse shape than Bush was claiming on the stump. After the leak of a July National Intelligence Estimate predicting Iraq could be in civil war by the end of 2005, conservative columnist Robert Novak accused the CIA of trying to undermine the President's re-election...