Word: vanguards
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...Larry Summers is quite interested in having the university together, and FAS and HMS have not worked together well in the past,” he said. “We are in the vanguard of increasing interactions between FAS and the med school...
...University-wide science initiatives—including the $300 million Broad Institute for genomics—have been launched over the last year, top administrators have concluded that the University’s two existing science campuses in Cambridge and Longwood will be insufficient to keep Harvard at the vanguard of scientific research...
...TIPS market balloons, fund firms are responding. There are about 20 offerings to pick from. You should look for a fund with at least a few years' track record as well as low expenses and above-average returns. Eric Jacobson, a senior analyst at fund tracker Morningstar, recommends Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities and Fidelity Inflation-Protected Bond. And for fans of exchange-traded funds, which trade like stocks, there's iShares Lehman TIPS Bond Fund. Funds that buy TIPS are conservative investments. But don't forget that even they can lose money if interest rates go up and bond prices...
GLIDERS AND PARATROOPERS The vanguard of the Allied armies was supposed to swoop in silently behind enemy lines, but little went according to plan. Paratroopers were scattered for miles across the countryside, some coming down directly into towns. Many wood-and-canvas gliders were raked by German fire or crashed into unexpectedly large hedgerows. But by the end of D-day, British commandos had captured key bridges near Caen, and Americans held large pockets inland from Utah Beach...
...response to urging from U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft, thirty-two of the nation’s leading scientific journals—the primary forum for the exchange of vanguard research—announced last year their intention to self-censor, pledging to nix publications that could lead to a terrorist attack...