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...National Institutes of Health (NIH), which gave $363 million to Harvard researchers last year, is trying to ease its grant application process, even as a vote today in the U.S. House could leave its funding power nearly static after years of steady decline. Earlier this month, an NIH-chartered committee tasked with “enhancing the peer review process” released preliminary recommendations. The working group suggested shortening grant applications, creating separate awards for first-time applicants, and asking outside reviewers to examine funding requests. The committee recommendations and potential congressional budget decrease could reshape Harvard?...
...does so is by being shamelessly, refreshingly attuned to pop culture. Taking its cues from the electronica-infused hip-hop that has come to dominate the radio waves, the company members deftly transformed themselves into robots with libidos, but struggled at first to gain momentum.“Ex-Static,” featured the direction of Pamela M. Santoyo ’08, Elisabeth Michaud ’09, Meron K. Haileselassie ’10 and Layla Amjadi ’10. Dancers from CityStep and Harvard Bhangra also performed in the show.The opening medley lacked the oomph...
...design, the video features numerous leg-like fingers artistically break dancing on the salon’s tables. These dancing digits show off the colorful nail designs, which shine with an intensity that Kid Sister hopes to one day match. They also supply some necessary choreography in an otherwise static video. Despite an awkward Kanye and a mostly sedentary Kid Sister, the video’s clever finger dance sequences and colorful (literally) staging keeps the viewer’s attention for the full three and a half minutes. Quite the feat for a song about fingernails...
...doctors continue learning about the ADHD brain, however, more and more alternative treatments, such as attention training and psychotherapy, are gaining traction. Research shows that the brain is not static - that it can physically change with experience. Studies reveal that the brains of some piano players, for instance, are more developed in the areas responsible for finger movement, while in the brains of people who have practiced meditation long-term, the attention centers are physically larger than average...
...weeks, his attitude evolved from trying to figure out what might be going wrong to realizing there was, Axelrod says, "a reason to do this now." As he told CBS news in the days before the dinner, "I think there was a period of time when things were static and people liked what they were hearing from me, but they didn't have a sense that there were significant differences between me and Sen. Clinton...