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...completely.Last month, after a week spent finding my stored belongings in the attic of Winthrop House and schlepping them up three flights of stairs to my new room, I did the unthinkable. With courses to choose and tutorial reading to do, I packed an overnight bag with nary a textbook and left town for a friend’s place in northern New Hampshire.As 95 North became Route 16 and Chocorua Road turned into Chinook Trail, the little things that needed doing back at Harvard disappeared from my mind. Without the constant presence of red brick and ivy to remind...
...name Yagan is synonymous with entrepreneurship at Harvard. Current Currierite Daniel F. Yagan ’06 is one of the founders of Redline Textbooks, an online textbook vendor with a loyal following among Harvard’s budget-conscious students. Yagan recently diversified Redline’s textbook offerings and expanded its stock. His older brother, however, has been less fortunate. Sam A. Yagan ’99, president of MetaMachine, the company that distributes the peer-to-peer program eDonkey, announced at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing on Sept. 28 that his company would “convert...
...make such a confession in William James Hall—one of Harvard’s many literal Ivory Towers—was a brazen act. I was not inclined to be quite as honest. And as an awkward silence filled the room, I offered a textbook answer to the TF’s question...
...that H. pylori caused ulcers. Failing that, Marshall, the more daring salesman of the two, tested it on himself in 1984, swallowing the vile brew and infecting himself with an agonizing case of gastritis. He then treated himself with antibiotics and embarked on a campaign to rewrite the medical textbooks. He succeeded. Read any medical textbook today, and you?ll see that H. pylori is acknowledged as the cause of the majority of ulcers. The recommended treatment-an antibiotic triple therapy-permanently cures 90% of patients. Although Marshall knows his discovery has changed millions of lives, he says...
Both new locations, the Coop and Gnomon Copy, offer reserve forms for coursepacks that are out of stock. According to Coop textbook manager Bob Wuesthoff, the Coop has also developed a system with the Core Office to let the office know when the coursepack inventory...