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Amber's dual roles as artistic medium and scientific research tool have rarely intersected. But that's just what they'll do starting later this week. On Saturday the American Museum will unveil, under Grimaldi's curatorial supervision, the most comprehensive display of amber ever mounted. The exhibition, "Amber: Window to the Past," features 146 fossil specimens and 94 decorative objects from museums and private collections all over the world, including Stone Age amulets from Scandinavia, 18th and 19th century Chinese figurines and treasures once owned by the Medicis of Italy and the Czars of Russia. Many of these artworks...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) held a rally outside of Massachusetts Hall yesterday to unveil a new poster with 5,000 signatures of those who support the union...
...School administrators last week helped unveil a new portrait honoring the late Reginald F. Lewis, CEO of TLC Beatrice International and one the Law School's largest benefactors...
...when anyone accuses them of courage in proposing such deep Medicare cuts, their proposal would still allow Medicare spending to rise; they merely want to slow the rate of growth, from 10% a year to 6.4%. American politicians of both parties love to declare a terrible crisis, then unveil a painless solution. But it is dishonest to suggest that slowing the growth of Medicare more than a third will not involve real cuts in benefits. Medicare is not projected to increase 10% a year because "Washington" is expanding the program. It is growing because the population is getting older. That...
...next move is up to the Republicans, who are expected to unveil the details of their plan sometime after Labor Day. Senate majority leader Bob Dole says the reform has to be "done" by Sept. 22. That leaves three weeks for the public to assess and debate the most radical change in the system since its creation in 1965. (Republicans last year criticized the Clinton Administration for producing in secret a health-care reform plan that was publicly debated for 10 months.) To meet Dole's schedule, we will all have to be marvels of a well-informed citizenry...