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...small mounting of butterflies—along with an accompanying collection of several larger mountings found throughout the house—provides an appropriate welcome to Berry and Pierce’s home; as the Curator of Lepidoptera in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, Pierce’s job is to know moths and butterflies. Across the hall hangs an eBay triumph of which Berry is particularly proud: a framed letter written by British evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace, whose work preceded Darwin’s but has largely gone unnoticed...
...even a small fraction is released each year, it would surpass the amount of carbon released by humans,” wrote David S. Sayres, a research associate involved with the project, in an emailed statement...
...Word is starting to get out and faculty are coming to us with activities—things that they’ve always wanted to do or things they’ve done small scale in a department course,” Kenen says. “A lot of this never could have happened in the Core...
...small, symbolic act of refusing to bribe in the same manner as thousands of other people has emboldened many individuals in India and thus anti-corruption advocates throughout the developing world. Whether taking the form of a zero-currency note or uniforms without bribe-holding pockets, innovative measures to reduce corruption can remove some of the final shackles that are holding back the growth of developing countries. As the zero-rupee note program shows, a devoted group of individuals with creative ideas does not need a large budget or major political supporters to change the economic culture of a country...
...professors were especially concerned that students concentrating in engineering or applied mathematics typically take CS50 for concentration credit. In order for the course to count for an engineering or applied math requirement, it must be taken for a grade, which would potentially force these students to be among a small minority of graded students in a primarily sat/unsat class...