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PERCHANCE TO DREAM For every traveler who ever doubted that melatonin could help jet lag, here's new research confirming that the supplement is one potent pill. High doses were given to blind people who had no ability to perceive light and dark and as a result suffered profound sleep...
I was more than a little dismayed by comments in your editorial, "A Difference of Nomenclature" (Editorial, Oct. 4). Applauding the closure of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), you questioned the opening of the new Center for International Development (CID) under not-so-new management. I can't...
Last October's merger between Harvard and Radcliffe severed any formal ties Radcliffe once had to undergraduate students. But the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study still maintains a presence in undergraduate life in several important ways. The College's decision to deny Radcliffe tabling space at last week's...
Finding my role as a neuro- or cogneuro- scientist, I'm trying to sort out not only what it means to think, but from what vantage point I can investigate thinking in the most clear-sighted--or should I say clear-minded--way. This is not an effort very different...
"When he left for Harvard, when he was 18, I repeated the stories to him," Dave Kacyvenski added. "He said, 'Dad, I knew we were poor; I didn't want to be, and I knew the only way I wouldn't be was to get an education.' That's pretty...