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...pushing for, but yet always wonder if it’s worth it to invest their time. A lot of Harvard students say, “Yeah, I’m opposed to the war but does the fact that I’m coming out on a rainy Wednesday to support a peace walk matter at all?” In some ways, Harvard students are too mature for their own good. Perhaps students have lost a bit of the idealism that has characterized previous generations and is what college students...
First-year students spend the Wednesday night before spring break creeping from river House to river House, performing (drunken) rituals and hoping against hope to be placed in a house with hardwood floors (and cockroaches) instead of a shuttle schedule posted on its door. The next morning, they find out which of the 12 undergraduate Houses they’ve been assigned to by reading the contents of an envelope delivered surreptitiously to their room. This week, however, freshmen are not the only students faced with a housing surprise. On Tuesday, Winthrop residents awoke to an e-mail from...
...targets for hackers. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, University of Washington, Beth-Israel Deaconess Hospital, and Harvard Medical School found that hackers could intercept patient information and reprogram the device, potentially endangering the patient by sending additional electrical signals to the heart. The researchers presented their findings last Wednesday, in anticipation of the publication of their paper, “Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses.” The study focused on the Medtronic Maximo, an IMD with wireless capabilities. These typically work over short distances and allow physicians to monitor...
...Every Wednesday, a small column of students march through Harvard Yard to protesting the Iraq War. Each week, 29 other students leave their dorms for exercises and training, learning how to become officers in the armed forces. Outside those two groups, awareness of the Iraq War on campus hasn’t come close to the level of student engagement during the Vietnam War, two professors with memories of Harvard during Vietnam said...
...brief moment on Tuesday, the usually unflappable Dalai Lama let his frustration show, when he told reporters in Dharamsala, "If things are getting out of control, then the option is to completely resign, completely resign!" he said, waving his arms for emphasis. He said he would meet on Wednesday with Tibetan marchers trying to cross the border from India and tell them to stop, as they are "making things difficult for the Indian government". He added, "What's the use of some clash with Chinese soldiers on the border...