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...part of its ongoing efforts to develop resources for students in science, the College began surveying undergraduates last Wednesday about their summer experiences. Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach said she believed that the survey, part of an initiative of the Task Force of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), was the first science survey administered to all College undergraduates. The page-long online questionnaire will compile responses from all students about their summer science activities as a source of background information for the further development of the Harvard Undergraduate Summer Science Research Program. The College is using...
...Apple device have commanded over 80 percent of the mp3 player market for years, and the line has cachet above and beyond simple numbers: consider, for example, that just about every raffle on campus with a prize of significant value this year has given ticket-holders or survey-takers the opportunity to win an iPod nano. Even my parents own an iPod. The iPod-ification of America might not have caught us completely by surprise—after all, the iPod has, in every incarnation, been better designed than most of its competition, and it has also been the subject...
...Louisiana, with Laura Bush saying that the nominee is "very deliberate and thoughtful, and will bring dignity to wherever she goes." Republicans say there is no chance Bush will yank the Miers nomination of his own accord. But some influential Republicans said there is a small chance she will survey the flak ahead and decide to withdraw...
...sales. Four models show up in Consumer Reports' list of the worst used cars. And in J.D. Power's influential study of long-term vehicle dependability, which measures problems encountered by owners of three-year-old cars, Mercedes scored far below the industry average in the 2005 survey; Mercedes owners reported more than twice as many problems per 100 cars as top-ranked Lexus. "Mercedes' fall from grace has been especially severe," says Chance Parker, J.D. Power's executive director of product and research analysis...
PEDIATRICIANS TO PARENTS: NO SHOTS, NO SERVICE Failing to inoculate your children leaves them vulnerable to illness, in more ways than one. In a survey of 302 pediatricians published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 39% of doctors said they would stop caring for families that refused vaccinations...