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...silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...
Thus we look away from campus, toward the fall colors of Vermont, the bright lights of New York, the twin town of Providence, R.I. We gaze as Gatsby did to the green light on the end of the dock, but for us, like him, it is inaccessible. It represents a certain freedom that we, as Harvard students, find it difficult to grant ourselves. To do so would mean going against the work ethic that Harvard's Puritan founders successfully instilled in cobblestones of the pavement and the bricks of the buildings--and the more modern ethic of mandatory 60-hour...
...reef rises as another declines. This cycle is what humans are now disrupting, however, and no one can foresee what the consequences will be. Creating more marine preserves can help, but even if the reefs are patrolled by armed guards, they may not be able to withstand the twin juggernauts of exploding population and the economic desperation that accompanies it. In the next five decades, the number of people on earth may nearly double, to more than 10 billion, and the pressure that will place on reefs is almost too enormous to contemplate...
...Harvard the impression, at least after one year, is quite different: Everyone expects a great deal, everyone is prepared to work hard and well, and everyone sets standards that at Minnesota were the measure of a happy few, generally students who had to be in the Twin Cities, who could not afford top schools or who found teachers and peers--as in the flagship units of the Liberal Arts, Political Science, Psychology and Economics Departments--who could mentor their work without flaw...
...news in the fight against AIDS is good, of course. Researchers have little more than a string of failures to report from the vaccine front. Early in the epidemic, they decided that it was too dangerous to follow the twin paths of traditional vaccine development--treatments based either on inactivated or weakened viruses. There is simply no way to guarantee that the viruses in a vaccine made of inactivated HIV will remain inactive. Similarly, any merely weakened strain of HIV might still overpower the human immune system. Because of the all too likely prospect that the resulting HIV vaccines would...