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Redoubling their efforts to unlock the power of the human genome, philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad yesterday pledged an additional $100 million to the biomedical research center they helped launch a year and a half ago as a joint venture of Harvard and MIT. The new funding to the Broad Institute, which doubles the $100 million originally announced by the billionaire couple in 2003, will be made through Harvard and will be distributed over 10 years. When the initial donation was made to MIT last year, the gift was considered “seed” money...
...season of Harvard women’s basketball—and, for once, herself.“Whatever [position] I’m playing, the one or the two,” she says, “it just feels natural for me.” To unlock the scary potential of her top returning scorer at 11.9 points per game, head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith has moved Holsey to the shooting guard position—an audacious move, considering that Holsey led the Ivy League in assists with 4.71 per game a year ago. The talented...
...black urban America and Grime, a form of London hip-hop. It's spoken in schools and clubs, on street corners and all over the Internet - anywhere, in fact, where kids enjoy mastering a language that excludes parents and other authority figures. Until now. The two dictionaries cited above unlock some of the secrets of the new lingo, as well as providing glossaries of longer established slang. "The chief components of slang are sex, money and intoxicants," says Jonathon Green, who compiled the latest Cassell's. It used to take years for such words to enter the lexicon, he adds...
...flexibility. Enter snowboard-loving British inventors Richard Palmer and Phil Green, both 39, and their new material, d3o, which can perform a few high-speed tricks of its own. d3o's molecules flow as an athlete moves, but on impact they bind together instantaneously to absorb shock, then unlock to become soft and elastic once again. "It's a protective system that changes shape with you, so it doesn't restrict you at all and by stiffening spreads the load and reduces tendency to bruising," says Green, a materials scientist and d3o's research director...
...gearshift back on the column to create more console space. It's an almost quaint touch, but you aren't shifting anything: the shifter is merely a lever that signals some other mechanical minion to go into reverse. There's also a remote-entry system that lets you unlock the doors and start the car without inserting a key in the lock or ignition. You wouldn't want to exert yourself...