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...included performances from Professor of Biostatistics Nan M. Laird and FAS Executive Dean Nancy L. Maull. After another day of speeches and mingling, Meng closed Saturday’s activities with a talk about the department’s progress as well as its goals, focusing on expanding the size of the statistics faculty. “The deans have promised that we will double the department, and now we need to find people,” he said. “If you look at the future, and at the past, you see that it?...
...crowd into the Yard. With streakers on DeWolfe Street, champagne celebrations in Dunster courtyard, and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) stationed around the Yard, the campus reflected scenes of excitement throughout the Boston area. But not all spirits in the Yard were high. Some were skeptical about the size of the crowds and the magnitude of the celebrations. “A true fan stands outside in the cold and suffers for his team,” said Beau C. Robicheaux ’08. “Whereas a bandwagon fan shows up in the ninth inning...
...While I applaud gm for going hybrid, i question the wisdom of debuting the technology in an SUV. Twenty miles per gallon (12 liters/100 km) is nothing to brag about, regardless of vehicle size. I get 32 m.p.g. driving a Chevy Malibu in rural Vermont. By putting hybrid power in an SUV, GM shows it still doesn't quite get the idea. George Simpson, Pittsfield, Vermont...
...Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that as temperatures increased in the West, which is now 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 1 degree Celsius) warmer than it was in 1987, so did the length of the wildfire season and the size and duration of the average fire...
...room. Each wrinkled sign bears one of those questions, and Obey asks them so often that he can recite them by heart. "The first is: If what you want costs money, are you willing to go home and tell your friends that we need to cut back on the size of the President's tax cuts so there is room for it in the budget?" The second, and related question, goes as follows: "Is there anything you want me to do for somebody else that is more important than whatever it is you want...