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...They are hoping that with the Democrats in control of Congress, legislation like the Prevention First Act will reduce the need for abortions by promoting comprehensive sex education and expanding access to contraception. At Planned Parenthood clinics, fewer than 1 in 10 clients is there for an abortion; the vast majority are there for birth control and reproductive health care (98% of American women have used contraception at some point in their lives). But because promoting abstinence before marriage is a part of the CPC mission, centers are eligible for federal abstinence-education grants, which in some cases have instantly...
...burned. Probably Adam."Flyover Country": Steven T. Cupps ’09 is a biological anthropology and economics concentrator in Lowell House. In an attempt to reveal the neglected bits of Americana, his column will offer musings that sprawl from the Pacific to the Atlantic and the vast track in between. His column appears on alternate Thursdays. "The Visible Hand": Will Johnston ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. Appearing on alternate Wednesdays, his column will look at the unruly intersection of capitalism, politics, and culture, sometimes showing why Harvard students may have more...
...other happenings among the Harvard youngsters, freshman Kathryn Farni tallied her first career goal in the third period. And fellow frosh Cori Bassett, who has spent the vast majority of her rookie campaign on the blue line, skated as a forward last night, joining senior Katie Johnston and sophomore Jenny Brine on the Crimson’s third line. Bassett, though, got a painful introduction to the offensive rotation with time winding down in the game when she was caught in the face by a Huskies highsticking violation...
...University. Faust is an observer no more. As Harvard president, she will need to strike a balance between the humanities and the sciences at a time when the rapid expansion of the latter threatens to make the rest of the disciplines feel left behind. “Science absorbs vast amounts of money and space, and the rest of us who sit in our offices and read books think we would like to have a small fraction of that money and space,” Jennifer L. Hochschild, the Jayne professor of government, said in an interview yesterday.Among the challenges...
Princeton University has joined the Google Books Library Project, as Harvard is set to ramp up the rate at which its own books will be scanned. The Harvard University Library was one of the first five library systems to join the Google project in 2004, making books in its vast collections available online through Google in digital form. Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, the director of the University Library, said that Google would open up a higher-capacity facility for scanning Harvard’s books “very soon...