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...neoteny is both obvious - most people find other people with youthful features to be attractive - and unsettling. Appreciating neotenic features isn't the same as being sexually attracted to children, but at least one study has found that average, college-age heterosexual males and child molesters share remarkably similar (and deeply neotenic) attractions: high cheekbones, unwrinkled eyes, glabrous skin...
...health officials from Geneva to Washington puzzled. In Mexico, swine flu has caused severe respiratory disease in a number of patients - and even more worryingly, has killed the sort of young and healthy people who can normally shrug off the flu. (Fueling such concerns is the fact that similar age groups died in unusually high numbers during the 1918 pandemic.) Yet the cases in the U.S. have all been mild and likely wouldn't have even garnered much attention if doctors hadn't begun actively looking for swine flu in recent days. "What we're seeing in this country...
...countries around the world have stockpiled millions of doses of antivirals that can help fight swine flu as well as other strains of influenza. The U.S. has a detailed pandemic preparation plan that was drafted under former President George W. Bush. Many other countries have similar plans. SARS and bird flu have given international health officials useful practice runs for dealing with a real pandemic. We can identify new viruses faster than ever before, and we have life-saving technologies - like artificial respirators and antivirals - that weren't available back in 1918. "I believe that the world is much, much...
...administrators involved in the search did not ask applicants to provide information about their previously published works.In contrast to previous directors, Jehn’s strength has been administrative, rather than scholarly, which Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris lauded but writing program directors at colleges with programs similar to Harvard’s critiqued.“He’s not very well-known in the field,” said one writing program director, who asked not to be named. “He’s more of an administrator than an intellectual force...
...early retirement incentive is worrying, especially in conjunction with the ongoing hiring freeze FAS implemented last November. The faculty buyout has the potential to harm Harvard’s educational mission if it is carried out with the hiring freeze still in place. The early retirement incentive is similar to one offered to staff two months ago and is part of a series of measures intended to pare down the faculty’s budget, which is expected to run a $220 million deficit over the next two years if the school does not take measures to reduce its expenditures...