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Students were not the only ones struggling for change at Harvard. The Nixon administration, anxious to suppress student uprisings, passed a series of bills designed to stop the flow of aid to campuses with a history of radical activities. Harvard, with its recent history of political demonstration, was one target...
...using drugs that partly suppress the immune system, doctors can prevent the body from rejecting transplants of human origin. When organs from one species are placed in another, however, the recipient reacts even more violently and quickly-usually attacking the foreign tissue within a matter of minutes or hours...
...because the Dean is reluctant to spend his last months as Dean of the College in battle with student protesters? Or is it because Jewett hopes to suppress student protest by announcing his decision while undergraduates are submerged in the grind of finals...
Foxx says neighborhood crime is a recurringissue. "The drug problem in Cambridge tends to bein specific areas of the city," he says. "Whenyou suppress it in one area. it rises in another.It's an evasive problem...
...proliferation of such programs has wrought panic among law-enforcement officials and their brethren in the military and intelligence communities, who see it as a serious threat to their ability to police computer crimes and espionage. The U.S. government is trying to suppress development of such unbreakable encryption on two fronts. It is promoting public use of its own approach to the technology, called ``key-escrow encryption,'' which would allow the government to hold keys to any and all encrypted communications. Washington is also vigorously enforcing a ban on the export of encryption software, regardless of whether such software...