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What image does the name Harvard evoke? To some it is a brand of cigarettes marketed in India, a type of cologne produced in England or a beer that a Massachusetts-based company first brewed at the end of the 19th century. To others it is a second-rate school in Canada that teaches negotiating skills. And then there s the Cambridge-based educational institution that claims and fights for the sole rights to the coveted name. Enrique J. Calixto, Harvard s trademark program s administrator, and others at the Harvard Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing spend at least...
...resolution "gives us some type of bargaining power or leverage if we are to meet with [the administration]," he said...
...with the story we're telling. Truly gifted dissemblers, however, reveal very little of this, lying so easily and skillfully that even the most well-trained eye wouldn't notice a thing. If cops and card players can be fooled, though, it's now possible that another type of sophisticated lie detector can't: the computer...
That's what makes a report in the current Nature so promising. U.S. and European scientists have shown that patients can learn, by trial and error, to control a type of brain waves called slow cortical potentials. By hooking the patients up to a computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...
What the panel didn't question was Rezulin's immense promise. In most folks, insulin (a substance produced in the pancreas) helps ferry blood sugar into cells, where it is used for energy. But for the 15 million or so Americans with Type II diabetes, cells resist insulin's entry; eventually they weaken and die. Traditional treatments involve boosting the amount of insulin available to the cells. But these can have side effects, and for some people they don't work...