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...molecular biologist vs. that of a politician, weigh the relative impact of a tennis player and a fashion designer or an architect and a minister? You can't, of course, and we don't try. But we look for people whose ideas, discoveries, talent and, yes, power shape and transform our world. These are our modern stars who shape our destiny...
Minnesota Governor Tim J. Pawlenty cancelled plans to give a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday evening after learning of his state’s first probable case of swine flu. He was scheduled to give a presentation titled “The Need to Transform America’s Education, Health Care, and Energy Systems,” but instead chose to remain in his home state to respond to the development. “This is a situation that can become more serious,” he said in a press conference yesterday...
Alain Passard's decision in 2001 to transform his three-star Paris restaurant l'Arpège - famous for its slow-cooked T-bones, lamb and duck - into a temple to the vegetable raised many an eyebrow in the world of haute cuisine. For the erstwhile master rôtisseur, however, it constituted a culinary rebirth. "Vegetables were a resurrection for me," Passard says. In seeking to define "the first vegetable haute cuisine," Passard has since created such signature dishes as beetroot in croûte de sel and onion flambé with pears and praline sauce. But perhaps...
...adaptability of the virus, however, made it a certainty that a strain that evolved in one of the susceptible species would easily make whatever changes were necessary to allow it to survive in one of the few other eligible hosts. So quickly and efficiently does the virus transform itself that it may require just a single passage through a single individual to get that shape-shifting job done. "Different viruses from different sources enter a cell, and the virus that comes out the other end is an entirely different one," says Dr. Richard Webby, an infectious-disease specialist...
...gold at Saturday’s “Kick Out Malaria Cup,” an event aimed at raising money for mosquito nets for villages in Sierra Leone. The event, organized by the team itself, is a sign of the increased freedom sports teams have as they transform from junior varsity to club-level organizations. Last year, Harvard’s JV Soccer Team, plagued with low participation rates and dwindling competition, disintegrated and the Harvard Club Soccer team emerged in its place. “It was really a shame because there are a lot of really...