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...Grievance over Tenure Denial," Dec. 14, 1998) summarizes the fundamental procedural flaws-concerning both the composition of the ad hoc committee and the participation in the tenure review by Associate Provost of the University, Director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions, and Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson-at the center of my appeal. However, some of the information given to Ms. Newmyer by members of the Harvard faculty and administration is untrue or misleading and needs to be corrected...
...next decade we could be eating broccoli not just to make Mom happy but also as a way to deliver drugs that stave off infectious diseases or that treat various chronic conditions. "The idea of vaccinating people with edible plants is very new," says Dwayne Kirk of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Ithaca, N.Y. "But it's a lot friendlier than injections...
...Leonard Guarente, a specialist on aging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, observes that "telomeres seem to be important in getting cells to divide in vitro, but the onus is to show that short telomeres affect aging in vivo. I don't think we know that yet." --By Clare Thompson...
BAGHDAD: The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began at dawn Saturday in Iraq, but that doesn't make a bit of difference to the Pentagon. "Bill Cohen's word all along has been that the U.S. wouldn't 'initiate' an attack during Ramadan," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But they won't stop now before they're finished." That meant a fourth round of air strikes in Baghdad Saturday...
...Meanwhile, says Thompson, Iraqi warplanes haven't budged, and ground installations haven't fired a single surface-to-air missile at their assailants. "Saddam knows from eight years ago that whatever he uses, he'll lose," he says. "He seems determined to curl up in a little ball until this is over." That end might come by Sunday. Then again, it might...