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...increasing the merit of the tutorials which remain. The history department, for example, eliminated one of its two junior tutorials this year, a class which, in spite of the spin put on it by the senior professors in charge, was nothing more than banal busywork dressed up as vital grounding in the science of research. And I have no doubt that many other departments would benefit from similar addition by subtraction...
...Mahan said that the construction of centralized student space is vital to the success of a new Allston campus...
...high fees required of government-sanctioned operators. Despite the controversy, Reliance paid a $116 million penalty--which its critics said was a bargain--and continued to grab market share. Mukesh says he's determined to keep Reliance growing. His father demonstrated that Indian companies can be modern, vital and competitive. The sons have picked up the torch. "People will remember you after you are gone not for your money or your power," Mukesh says, "but because of what you have left behind." --By Aravind Adiga and Meenakshi Ganguly
...March 23, Australian opposition leader Mark Latham made a vital announcement to the public, declaring that, if elected, he would withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by Christmas. It was a bold maneuver. The U.S. coalition in Iraq—already flimsy since the terrorist attacks in Spain—needs unconditional endorsement from its remaining major allies, but the recent pattern suggests that the Bush administration’s support from the world will be further curtailed by the end of the year...
Scientists expect very big things for buckyballs, the microscopic, soccer-ball-shaped molecules of pure carbon that are vital to the promising field of nanotechnology. A new study, however, has raised concerns about their possible toxicity. A solution of buckyballs caused "severe" brain damage to young largemouth bass in a lab aquarium (it also wiped out populations of the water flea, Daphnia, an ecologically important link in the food chain). While it isn't known whether buckyballs could pose a danger to humans, the study urges further investigation of the fledgling technology's potential risks. --David Bjerklie