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There are those--soldiers and nurses, poets and priests--for whom death is a sure companion. But most of us treat it as a notorious celebrity we watch from afar, fascinated but removed, until we have no choice, preferring myth to truth. Do we raise the odds of dying well if we pitch our tents within sight of the cemetery, feel the cold earth and vow to make a bucket list, make resolutions, make amends? Ten million people watch Professor Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on YouTube; see the shining, dying man; and quietly promise themselves to shift...
...We’re going to treat this weekend like everything’s riding on it because, for the seniors, it’s our last Ivy weekend as Harvard players,” captain Matt Vance said. “We want to go out there and work to come out on top, because we’re going to remember it forever...
Meet TG101348 Harvard researchers have used a designer drug to successfully treat blood cancer in mice, and it is moving quickly toward the marketplace, the scientists announced earlier this month...
...this sentiment new: Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) was the patron of the French Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Pope John XXIII (1958-63) declared that “man must never hurt animals, must never ill-treat them, nor torture them physically.” In Saint Thomas Moore’s Utopia, the slaughtering of animals is left to slaves for fear that when citizens do it, “the practice of mercy, the finest feeling of our human nature, is gradually killed...
...they plan to continue on to careers as performers. Still, these students have the responsibility of representing jazz to the student body and Harvard to the jazz world. For his part, Benny Golson seems unworried that the majority of the students he’s worked with this week treat jazz as an extracurricular activity and nothing more. Although he notes that “music, like anything else, can be as important as the time and effort you put into it,” he also praises Everett and the Harvard jazz program for addressing students’ needs...