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...arguing for the legal right to study the bones, and Native Americans are insisting on their right to respectfully bury them. Which takes precedence, scientific research or religious sensitivity? Can scientists delve into a lost past without defiling sacred remains? Both groups' respect for the past can be a springboard for compromise. Surely there is a means by which scientists can study the remains of Kennewick Man that the tribes agree is respectful. All remains and relics can then be honored in a way Native Americans...
...said that the theme of this year’s festivities was “supreme perseverance.” Seven Harvard seniors were celebrated for exemplary leadership, a high school senior was presented with a $2,000 scholarship, and Pamela G. Carlton, co-founder of Springboard-Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership, was honored with the Woman of the Year Award. The Senior Leadership Awards were given to seniors who had “contributed to Harvard and the world,” said BMF officer Bryan C. Barnhill ’08. Each senior was celebrated in a video...
...works at NASA. Brin from an early age was fascinated with numbers; his father gave him his first computer, a Commodore 64, when he turned 9. Brin's other love is gymnastics, and he studied flying trapeze at a circus school in San Francisco. He has lately taken up springboard diving. Michael Brin recently visited the West Coast to check in on his son, the billionaire. "Sergey was a good boy," Michael wisecracks, "when he was asleep...
...would be planning a bid for the top leadership of Harvard’s Undergraduate Council (UC).But after convincing Hadfield, a fellow international student, to make the move to Cambridge, the two have maintained their friendship and now are hoping to use their unconventional past experiences as a springboard to reform the UC. “Harvard is a diverse community and it takes diverse leadership to get something done around here. It’s easy for other candidates to live within the bubble of Harvard Yard,” Hadfield says. He added that his and Grimeland?...
...atlas should also provide a springboard for a broader range of experiments. "Neuroimaging is more than finding the next drug for anxiety," says Allan Schore, a neuroscientist at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. "We can study empathy, trust, deception, emotional communication, regulation of violence--issues that are central to human existence...