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...programs or conferences just focus on one of these things.”“Everyone will take something different away form the program, but hopefully it’ll open their eyes a bit to what life here at Harvard is like,” said Katherine V. Wai ’06, who is the chair of the conference committee for HCAP. “We hope to share with them a little bit of our lives.”In addition to indulging in gourmet University dining hall food, the students will also take historical tours...
...leaders who dreamed big dreams: Margaret Thatcher, determined to reverse Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors, bludgeoning the member states of the European Union into taking seriously their promise to forge an ever closer union; Václav Havel, insisting that Europe was a single moral and political space that should never again be divided into a free West and an oppressed East. They don't make them like that anymore, of course, and there is a conventional explanation why. In the 50 years after World...
...Michael V. Tucci ’06 and Joshua R. Klimkiewicz ’06, residents of Leverett’s D entryway, which contains the dining hall, said they awoke to the sound of a plumber knocking on their door to investigate possible links between plumbing problems and the flood...
...measuring the current that flows across the sperm’s plasma membrane for the first time, Yuriy V. Kirichok and Betsy Navarro of the Children’s Hospital in Boston, found that sperm have a unique ion pathway. The discovery allowed Kirichok and Navarro to determine the function of the cation channel of sperm (CatSper) and could potentially lead to the development of new contraceptives designed to block the protein...
...Time's report on the secrets of ambition is that superachievers in life do not waste the opportunities they get but use them to excel. They take advantage of good luck and combine that with love for their work and the desire to get ahead of everyone else. Vijay V. Muthye Raipur, India...