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...ultimately failed, but only because of a technicality: the state??s Supreme Judicial Court refused to let MIT sell its Back Bay land to fund the merger...
...like an exclusively personal phenomenon. Yet experiences of imagination-loss and general disenchantment are rampant. A slew of recent popular movies has taken up the theme, from gems like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” to less sterling efforts like “Garden State?? or “Along Came Polly.” They all share a common plot device: A practical, reasonable adult is rejuvenated by the childlike antics of some zany individual—because, of course what used to be imagination or creativity is called...
...chosen from thousands of applicants. Glamour selected Pasricha for her global movement, which began in 2001 when she organized a group of peers in her hometown of Hockessin, Del. to push for the Delaware Clean Indoor Air Act, which bans smoking in the state??s public establishments. The act was passed in March 2003. Pasricha said that her biggest challenge came when speaking at the legislative hearings weighing the bill. “One of the legislators asked me, ‘If we pass this bill, aren’t we going to hurt the tobacco farms...
...stem cell bank will be the world’s largest repository for stem cell lines, the plans said. “That’s what you would expect,” said Casey of the funding set aside for public institutions. “That is the state??s traditional responsibility.” Though Harvard officials do not yet know how the rest of the money will be allocated, David T. Scadden, a scientific director at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), said he hoped his organization would play a major role in projects financed...
...percent for those aged 18 to 26. The dramatic differences in employment and opportunity between the banlieues and the rest of France suggest that France’s traditional assimilationist approach toward its immigrant population has failed. Even after two or three generations in France, and despite the state??s supposed blindness to race, opportunities for immigrants and their offspring seem to be getting worse rather than better...