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Harvard will establish a new concentration combining the study of technology and society in the six-month-old School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), University President Drew G. Faust said at a question-and-answer session with junior parents on Friday. Responding to a question about how the University was working to improve its engineering program—for many years an afterthought at Harvard—Faust said that a potential concentrator “would develop capacities both in engineering but will also understand a wider range of ways in which technology can affect society...
...opinions (on gay rights, on abortion, on immigration), there's the more obscure dig at Romney's comic explanation for his spotty hunting record (the "lifelong hunter" has been on two hunts - "for small varmints, if you will"). And there's the for-junkies-only joke, resurrecting a six-month-old charge that Romney's landscaping company employed illegal immigrants from Guatemala. As an added bonus, the riff could also be a slyly self-deprecating poke at the exact persona Team Romney seeks to remind voters of: The angry old man, yelling at neighborhood kids to "Get off my lawn...
Capitalizing on the spirit of the national corporate-sponsored “EntrepreneurshipWeek USA,” the six-month-old Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF) has organized three campus-wide discussions this week in support of students’ commercial creativity. The first discussion, “Student Entrepreneurs: Staging a Company in Between Classes,” held Monday, centered on the practicalities of becoming an entrepreneur at Harvard—namely what students can do to meet challenges they face while pursuing their enterprise ideas. The informal discussion was facilitated by Vice President and co-founder...
...six-month-old enterprise intends to publish digests and anthologies of blogs, plus other up-to-the-moment writings. "Pamphlets after all are a grassroots phenomenon that were traditionally read by everyone in society from the lowliest street sweeper to the crowned heads of Europe," says Bellow, the president and editorial director of TNP. "They are the natural form for the expression of ideas, especially those that are marginal, unpopular or against the grain of current moral taste." Not to mention that people increasingly don't have the desire to buy pricey, time-consuming books, a fact that...
...sole relief group in the village. There is a row of freshly dug graves under the trees on the edge of Dubie's biggest refugee camp. "Essentially people are dying of starvation," says Delfin Kapia, a medic for msf, as he struggles to inject antibiotics into a six-month-old boy weighing just 4.6 kg. The following day, Dubie's first food delivery since January arrived. The U.N. truck convoy had taken nearly four weeks to traverse 480 km of dirt track. Despite the dramatic nature of the crisis, U.N. officials say they face deep skepticism among Western governments...