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...showcasing Harvard’s accessibility, HFAI is part of an effort to wean the University’s image off the elitism that gnawed at Fitzsimmons in the mid-sixties. Eight undergraduates work as program coordinators, and Byerly hires HFAI students to recruit for the College in their hometowns, according to Leona A. Oakes ’07, senior coordinator of the program. Some HFAI admits were flown to Cambridge last spring on the College’s dime, and last April’s prefrosh weekend featured two open forums on student life aimed at the budget-conscious...
...inefficient and expensive. Flickinger's paint concept needs nothing more than waste carbon sources, sunshine and a thin coating of highly concentrated microbes. For the moment, more fundamental scientific and engineering studies are needed in the laboratory to prove the concept. But, one day, Flickinger's polymers could help wean us off fossil fuels, one light bulb at a time...
...raid, many of Nelson's patients have been unable to find doctors. Few physicians are trained in the complexities of pain control, and fewer still want to risk government second-guessing. Some of Nelson's patients have suffered acute narcotic-withdrawal symptoms, as he was unable to wean them gradually. Others, unable to cope with their pain, lost their jobs. They have staged demonstrations and press conferences in downtown Billings and mounted petition drives. As one of the few Montana doctors offering opioid therapy, Nelson was "like the Mother Teresa of medicine," says Jeannie Huntley, a marketing consultant who suffered...
What does alternative energy have to do with national security? Gray and Podesta are part of an unlikely alliance of neoconservatives, farmers and union and environmental leaders who want to wean the U.S. of its oil habit--some for purely green reasons (to stave off global warming), but others for the sake of cutting U.S. dependence on the volatile Middle East. And they have some radical ideas about how to do it. "We live in a world in which a terrorist attack in the Middle East could push oil well over $100 a barrel and send the world economy into...
...Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis) has built a Hobbitish house for himself and his daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). The place is their bomb-shelter refuge from the modern world Jack fiercely resists. Now it is 1986, Jack is dying, and he decides that Rose, 16, needs a family to wean her from the isolation that has nurtured her. He invites his sometime lover Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her two teenage sons to come live with them. The place was never quite Utopia, but it will soon become hell...