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Jonathan E. Mayer ’10 is hardly a normal college freshman—even at Harvard. Mayer was recently selected for his playwriting skills from over 200 entries as the winner of the 2006 VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Award, a 22-year-old national writing contest that promotes plays focused on the role of disability in society today...
...think it worked in the first part of overtime and it definitely worked in the second part.” Harvard was finally rewarded during the second half of overtime when Fucito’s cross found Altchek’s head for the game-winner. Helping the Crimson was the play of young defenders like rookies Chey Im and Kwaku Nyamekye, who enabled the Crimson to stay on the offensive. “Kwaku came out as a forward and played a couple of games early at forward, but we pushed him to the back line because we weren?...
...victorious feeling as it experienced just two days earlier. The Crimson (8-4-0, 2-1-0 Ivy) once again found the back of the net in the second overtime frame and beat No. 19 Fairfield on the road by a 2-1 final. While Saturday’s winner came with minutes to spare before a draw would have been called, the goal from sophomore Mike Fucito yesterday came 43 seconds before the end of overtime. “We were the better team, we pressured them the whole game,” Fucito said...
Science is boring? Not during nobel week, when therecipients of the highest honors in chemistry, medicine and physics are announced. The 2006 winners were named last week, continuing a tradition begun in 1901, five years after Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel died, leaving $9 million and instructions to start annual prizes to honor achievements in those three scientific fields as well as in literature and peace. (Recipients of those awards will be announced this week, along with the winner in economics, a prize created in 1969.) The stories behind this year's science winners are particularly compelling...
...winner this year was research on RNA--the genetic "messenger" that transcribes DNA code so it can be made into proteins. Work in this area earned the chemistry prize for Stanford University's Roger Kornberg and the medicine prize for Andrew Fire, also of Stanford, and the University of Massachusetts' Craig Mello. Studying RNA is important because a full understanding of its functions could lead to therapies and cures for diseases linked to defective genes...