Word: unknowns
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...Back in 2006 the film Unknown threw five men into a dungeon and robbed them all of any recollection of how they got there. The Hangover takes this scientifically suspicious multiple-amnesia gimmick, references about a dozen Vegas movies (from Leaving Las... to What Happens in... to Rain Man) and applies all the numbingly familiar tropes of the bromance comedy that have made this flourishing subgenre as rigid in its conventions as Kabuki theater...
...says she is confident that her team will find ways to use the crisis to Harvard’s advantage.“The time period in which we’re going to see improvement in the world economies, financial markets, and endowment performance is very much an unknown,” Mendillo says. “But we know that eventually things will improve, and the way we have the portfolio positioned—the set of strategies, the mix of investments—we know that we’ll benefit from that improvement...
...Brett C. Sweet remains unknown to many professors and staff, but the FAS dean for administration and finance has gained attention in tandem with the increasing fiscal pressures. Smith first called attention to his financial guru at the November Faculty meeting: he had asked “Brett Sweet and others” to research Harvard’s coping mechanisms during past recessions. In a rare moment of uncertainty at the next meeting, Smith stopped mid-thought to double-check a fact with Sweet, who sat on the sidelines. “Yes,” Sweet quietly affirmed...
...years after my first job that I met my first word processor and understood that that term referred to a machine, not a person who was an editor. The first time someone yelled “the server is down,” I was terrified that some unknown staff assistant had been felled. I have experienced the horror of seeing a multi-page document scroll up at a rapid pace, deleting every sentence along the way. And I have many times been forced to use “Force Quit” when confronted with a frozen screen...
...birth and death records and other health statistics. Third, humans evolved in East Africa, making African genetic diversity greater than elsewhere in the world. Studying the interaction between environmental factors and genes elucidates disease mechanisms. Fourth, the unparalleled geographic, social, and cultural diversity may reveal risk factors as yet unknown. The final reason is to generate locally relevant results to stimulate political will for health promoting policy. The Harvard School of Public Health and African scientists have begun an ambitious project to start cohorts of 100,000 people in each of 4 countries covering west, east, and southern Africa. Doing...