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...administrations claim, Hydraseed, but an anti-pod-person pesticide. But this year, they came a little early, and Provost Green was the first victim. President Rudenstine and staff have been trying to keep anyone from seeing or talking to him. Their ingenious plan is to shunt him off to a position where he will have as little interaction--especially with inquisitive students--as possible. Green, as you may have heard by now, will once again assume the role of Wells professor of political economy. So says our source, anyway...
Panelists cited the under-representation of women among Harvard's top administrators as one example of how Harvard can shunt responsibility for women's equality off to Radcliffe...
...Belmont residents also voiced concerns about Cambridge's desire to shunt traffic away from the area and into neighboring communities. One of the residents that said that Belmont is a residential area and they don't want trucks going through at all hours...
...suppose the feminists' worst-case scenario turns out to be true, and males really are better, on average, at certain mathematical tasks. If this tempts you to shunt all the girls back to home ec, you probably need remedial work in the statistics of "averages" yourself. Just as some women are taller and stronger than some men, some are swifter at abstract algebra. Many of the pioneers in the field of X-ray crystallography -- which involves three- dimensional visualization and heavy doses of math -- were female, including biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, whose work was indispensable to the discovery of the double...
...baby was having so many seizures by now that she took him back to the hospital. The doctors operated on him, inserting a shunt into his skull to relieve the pressure on his brain, then released him again. "It was evenin', like about four-thirty, five o'clock," Holly recalls, "and we was walkin' in the street. It was rainin', as a matter of fact. Not a warm night." Several ( days later Holly was still wandering around with her dying baby, being sent from hotel to hotel. "The place the shunt went in, his wound had gotten bad," she tells...