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...stronger skeletons, and the other, labeled "B," with weaker ones. The gene itself directs construction of receptors (docking sites within the cell) for a form of vitamin D that plays a crucial role in bone formation. Once vitamin D locks in, the receptors act as a sort of control tower, switching on and off other genes that regulate calcium absorption and the constant renewal of bone...
...narrow artist. The English concentrator confesses that film is his passion. He has spent his summers working for production companies such as Fox and Sony Pictures Studio. Back on the East Coast, the Tom Cruise look-alike has starred in Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s soap opera, Ivory Tower. Fisher seamlessly blended his extracurricular and academic pursuits in his award-winning creative thesis. His thesis, which was a screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school, garnered the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize. After graduation...
...humiliate others,” Skocpol said at a Faculty meeting, exacerbating the contretemps last winter. Later softening her words, Skocpol was appointed dean of GSAS by Kirby last spring.Since the “unnecessary rejection” in 1980, Skocpol has risen to the top of the ivory tower. Before serving as dean of GSAS, she was elected president of the 14,000-member American Political Science Association. She has authored eight books since the publication of “States and Social Revolutions” and advised President Bill Clinton while he was in office. Her name...
...thing was sure: Kristof couldn’t be held in an ivory tower...
...Carleton is chosen as Miss Radcliffe ’59. WHRB, the undergraduate radio station, wins approval of football broadcasts a day later.10/5: School of education faces budget cuts of $63,000 when $300,000 bequest expires in June.10/9: Local alumni begin fundraising $80,000 to restore Memorial Hall tower. The Divinity School must get $675,000 before the end of the year to retain $250,000 given by the late Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont.10/10: The student council endorses a petition, signed by more than 900 students, in favor of allowing women guests in Houses at 1 p.m. on weekdays...