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...police said that on Oct. 22, a Harvard student was attacked in Cambridge Common at approximately 8:30 p.m. when a male grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast and then attempted to remove her coat. The victim struck the face of the suspect, who returned the blow and fled the area...
Besides honoring local activists and civic leaders, this year’s breakfast also marked the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that struck down racial segregation in public schools...
...occurred to us that we had never before made a program for children who were movers," says Wood. "So we came up with the idea of a program that would be full of infectious movement." With that in mind, Wood was flipping through a book of photographs when inspiration struck. "One of the pictures was of a tiny fish egg under the water with beautiful phosphorescence, and these two little fish-eggy eyes peeping out, and we thought, That's so funny! And yet so charming! And yet so full of possibility...
Many brain parts became active in our love-struck subjects when they focused on their beloved. However, two regions appear to be central to the experience of being in love. Perhaps our most important finding concerned activity in the caudate nucleus. This is a large, C-shaped region that sits deep near the center of your brain. It is very primitive--part of what is called the reptilian brain because it evolved long before mammals proliferated, some 65 million years ago. Our brain scans showed that parts of the body and the tail of the caudate became particularly active...
...Harvard senior says that after reading articles about MIT student Elizabeth Shin, who committed suicide in 2000, he was struck by the similar pitfalls in the Harvard system...