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TODDLER TEETH turned deadly serious--and scientifically invaluable--in 1958, when pathologist Walter Bauer helped start the St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey to study the effects of nuclear fallout on children. By 1970 the team had collected 300,000 shed primary teeth, which, they discovered, had absorbed nuclear waste from the milk of cows that were fed contaminated grass. The study helped establish an early-'60s ban on aboveground A-bomb testing and led to similar surveys across the U.S. and the rest of the world. Bauer...
...Parham ’09, one of the organizers of the event, said that the event was meant to counteract the fact that at Harvard there is “a lot of focus on law, medicine, i-banking, and consulting.” Last year, a Crimson survey found that 58 percent of Harvard men and 43 percent of women entering the workforce went into the financial sector. Dhaval Chadha ’08, another organizer, said that many of the organizations featured at the Saturday event simply do not have the resources or manpower to compete with...
...According to a survey done by The Crimson at the end of last year, Government concentrators are less satisfied with their major than students studying in almost all other Harvard departments. When members of the Class of 2007 were asked to rank their concentrations on a 5-point scale, Government ranked second lowest, slightly ahead of Biology...
...traditional Western art, have no permanent exhibitions of African art. The dearth in exhibits cannot be attributed to a dearth in African art itself—the Fogg and the Peabody museums are both home to several collections of African art that have remained in storage for years. The survey calls for a permanent African art gallery and condemns the “archaic, racist views that are causing these collections to be ignored.” As the Harvard University Art Museums move forward with their plans for the organization and development of new museums, we echo the survey?...
...Stolen Generations and Families Aboriginal Corporation, told ABC Radio, "I hope that the gates will be left open for us to talk further and maybe way down the track maybe get compensation. Or open some avenues where people can apply for compensation by going through the courts." A recent survey by the Stolen Generations Alliance found that some Aborigines want an apology to all indigenous people - about 450,000, or 2%, of Australia's 21 million citizens - because "we have all had something stolen from...