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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each department at Harvard possesses a certain number of Faculty Teaching Units (FTUs). The departments must then decide how to allocate their available FTUs among the various sub-specialties in their respective disciplines...
...only way in which Harvard can bring more minority and female Faculty members into its lecture halls is by making available more additional FTU, on a competitive basis among the various departments in FAS. One way in which this can be accomplished is for Harvard to increase the number of FTUs it gives to departments seeking to appoint minority or female professors from the one-half it presently gives, to one. This would relieve the departments' burden of producing a matching half...
Whether they came to celebrate the purple and white blossoms by comparing the number of petals of various Syringa species or by rolling down hills covered with dandelions, the roughly 20,000 people who packed Harvard's botanical museum/lab all came to smell the flowers...
...bearded propagator, dressed for the occasion in a lilac purple T-shirt emblazoned with a Harvard shield where the word "Veritas" was replaced with "Syringa," said that most of the Arboretum's lilac plants are "cultivars,"--bred for their various horticultural merits...
...Various proposals on how to do that have been put forward, several by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, a leading expert on nuclear weapons. Missile nose cones, he suggests, could be replaced by large, blunt tips, or disabling pins could be inserted into rocket engines. Indeed, warheads could actually be removed from the missiles, under mutual inspection procedures. All of the steps could be reversed, but they would build in a safety valve of time, giving an opportunity to reflect...