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...Yale’s Sustainable Food Project and the steps Harvard is taking in a similar direction. Joshua L. Viertel ’01 was instrumental in creating the pilot program in one of Yale’s dining halls in 2003, and it has grown into a campus-wide initiative in which 40 percent of food options in each dining hall at Yale are sustainable. Martin Breslin, the director for culinary operations at Harvard University Dining Services, wrapped up the discussion with the 2008 HUDS Sustainability Report, documenting Harvard’s progress to advance sustainability and offer fresh...
...retrovirus approach since researchers first reprogrammed human skin cells with the method late last year. Integrating these viruses into the cells' DNA causes permanent genetic manipulation, which can trigger malignant tumor growth, making them unsafe for human use. Scientists ultimately hope to clear this hurdle and treat a wide variety of human diseases by transplanting body tissues created from stem cells. Only three weeks ago, Harvard Medical School professor Konrad A. Hochedlinger and his colleagues at HSCI reported that they created mouse iPS cells using harmless adenoviruses that don’t alter the genetic makeup of the cells...
...late real-estate mogul Seymour Durst first erected the clock on Feb. 20, 1989 to call attention to the consequences of Reaganomics. At the time, the country had a national debt of $2.7 trillion. The original 25-foot-wide, 1,500-pound, 306-bulb sign cost more than $120,000 to create and install. (It now costs more than $500 a month to operate and maintain the light bulbs). Durst told reporters he had no plans to ever remove the clock. "It'll be up as long as the debt or the city lasts," he said, adding, "If it bothers...
...Because local officials have wide latitude in interpreting election laws that vary from state to state, misunderstandings - or misinformation - could have an even greater impact this year than in 2004, given the anticipated bulge in student turnout. Most of the trouble comes from nailing down where college students should be counted as residents if they attend school in one state but go home to another during the holidays. The Supreme Court's position is clear: a 1979 ruling found that all students have the right to vote where they attend college. But local officials often make students travel a rocky...
...prodigious salaries, which are about two and a half times the national average, will require cuts to be made in other areas: The school plans to hire only two social workers and no assistant principals, and will require all students to take Latin and music rather than offer a wide array of electives. These drawbacks have naysayers forecasting the school’s eventual failure, but given the current state of American education, this innovative model at least critically rethinks the status quo in our nation’s education policy. For years, American students have consistently underperformed on standardized...