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All undergraduates interested in serving as jurors are encouraged to volunteer, according to Anna Pierce, who is the administrative coordinator of the Criminal Justice Institute.
The volunteer jurors, ranging from Harvard undergraduates to local high school students, also offered opinions on individual aspects of the Harvard Law School students’ performances. Jurors commented on the logic presented to the jury and the strength of opening and closing arguments.
Late in August, Wikipedia announced that it was reining in its freewheeling ways. In several interviews, including many with TIME, officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that manages Wikipedia, explained that the user-edited online encyclopedia would soon impose restrictions on articles about living people. Under the new policy...
Chi thinks something more drastic has occurred: the Web's first major ecosystem collapse. Think of Wikipedia's community of volunteer editors as a family of bunnies left to roam freely over an abundant green prairie. In early, fat times, their numbers grow geometrically. More bunnies consume more resources, though...
The $105 million, six-year trial, which involved more than 16,000 people in Thailand - the largest AIDS-vaccine trial ever conducted - found that an experimental vaccine was 31% effective in preventing HIV infection. The volunteer group in the study was representative of the general Thai adult population, including low...