Word: transients
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...stall during his year-long tenure. LOW-PROFILE PRESIDENTThough many students might not see Bok at House study breaks, the interim president said he hopes that he can leave a more lasting mark on students’ lives.“I’m a transient figure,” he said, “and I thought the best thing I could do for undergraduates was to really use whatever time and energy I had trying to improve the quality of their educational experience.” Swamped with work and taking home a “full...
...according to Florence M. Brown, who is the co-director of the joint Joslin and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Diabetes and Pregnancy Program. “It is unclear how long the target tissues must be exposed to high glucose levels for birth defects to occur, or if transient spiking of blood glucose is enough,” wrote Brown in an e-mailed statement. Brown added that because the experiment was conducted on mice, the relationship between Glut2 and human birth defects is also unknown. However, Loeken said that the study will be helpful in determining what level...
...Boutique hoteliers, designers, publishers-messieurs, it is time to arise from your collective failure. I am not saying that I know best what the art of travel should consist of. But I do know that the natural order has been reversed when rooms once given over to transient luxury now resemble cells for long-term incarceration, and the contents of travel guides have become...
...self-promotion tool, it hasn’t really worked.In fact, “Beauty and the Geek” has barely affected Dern’s daily routine. For example, though Dern and Gahr performed with So Long Princess on the show, the band has garnered only transient attention.“We get a lot of MySpace plays, or more than we did,” he says. “In the last seven weeks we’ve been over 50,000.”Nevertheless, MySpace hits do not a successful career-launch make...
...training matter. Instead, our time is a continuation of every time before us. The great ideas that percolate today are direct descendents of the great ideas of our collective past. Therefore, Harvard College needs a general education curriculum that revolves around this past instead of blindly embracing a new transient whim...