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Professors Howard E. Gardner ’65, Stephen Owen, and Theda Skocpol have joined founding fathers, academic bigwigs, and current Harvard scholars as newly elected members of the American Philosophical Society (APS). Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for “promoting useful knowledge,” the...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Elected to Oldest National Academic Society | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

Such descriptions shed light on seemingly self-destructive behavior like biting, scratching, spinning and head banging. For people like Rajapatirana, banging against a wall can be a useful way to tell, quite literally, where their head is at. "Before we extinguish [such behaviors], we need to understand what they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Autistic Mind | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

Surely, Mr. Clean could tell me more. I logged on to Procter & Gamble's website, where I found tips about how to use the products but still no list of ingredients. It turns out that companies aren't required to tell us what makes their products work; there is no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haz-Mats At Home? | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

You?re going to have to look for this movie in the fine print of the art-house listings, but it is well worth the effort - mostly for what the movie does not do. Chief among its reluctances is killing Germans. Exactly one of them, a hapless guard at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strolling Toward Their Destiny | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

What makes Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 unusual is not the fact that she plagiarized passages from another author’s work—it’s the fact that she got caught.Well, that and the fact that she scored a six-figure book contract.According to the...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fighting Plagiarism, Schools Go High-Tech | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

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