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Still, the science is remarkable. Since hearing S.R.D.'s story, the researchers have analyzed a total of 14 children and one adult at the eye hospital. All of them have shown significant improvement in less than a year. While most were treated surgically, the adult--a 29-year-old man with congenital aphakia (an eye missing its lens)--just needed a pair of glasses. Eighteen months later, he was able...
...California, the bill is another step toward an ambitious commitment to drastically cut its emissions of atmosphere-warming greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, which are released whenever fossil fuels are burned. In September, the state passed legislation calling on California to reduce its total emissions by a whopping 25 percent by 2020. The San Francisco Chronicle posited that the pledge “could lead to a dizzying array of changes in industry and elsewhere,” suggesting that “state regulators could require more public transportation, more densely built housing, a major new investment in projects...
...Stanford raised over $911 million and Harvard received nearly $600 million—the second-highest amount in the country—as total charitable giving to U.S. universities rose by 9.4 percent to $28 billion...
...Crimson hoped to complete the match in three successive games but a valiant effort from the Raiders in game three forced an ultimately decisive fourth game. Senior middle hitter Andy Nelson started the third game serving up a multitude of vigorous attacks, racking up three of his 14 total kills and an ace within the first few minutes. After holding a steady lead throughout the game, Rivier clawed back from a two-point deficit at 22-20, riding off the momentum of Raiders’ sophomore Scott Wright’s thunderous block to collect five consecutive points...
...long bout with its student population. It reinforces a disheartening precedent of broad paternalism, this time without even a shred of justification. Examples of the City’s historic hostility and distrust toward its sizable collegial constituency—which in 2000 made up 15 percent of its total population—abound. For instance, the city has granted exactly one after-hours license—to a diner that does not serve alcohol past 1 a.m.—and shutters its subway system not long after midnight. It seems unlikely that Boston will relax...