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...first pre-Cup regattas in Marseilles, France, two years ago, they won a lot of sympathy, but lagged far behind in most of the races. Cobbled together by an eccentric, Italian-born shipping tycoon and sailing enthusiast who lives in Durban, Shosholoza lacks just about everything conventional wisdom holds that a team needs to be successful. They can't compete with the experience, technological prowess and $100 million-plus budgets of teams like U.S. entry BMW-Oracle (put together by software billionaire Larry Ellison) or some of the European entries. The team has broken a mast and collided with...
...great majority of men. These things are undoubtedly tied up with women’s biological functions. The women bear the children, and love them before they even come into the world.” In this modern era, we cannot lose sight of Roosevelt’s wisdom. After all, mother knows best...
...busy boldly going where no angst-ridden alt-rockers have gone before. They are on a mission of the utmost importance: to play their song on a spaceship. A planet looms impressively off to one side. The whole thing only goes to show that, contrary to popular wisdom, adding “…in SPACE!” is not a cure-all for tired concepts. In this case, “the video that’s just a band performing alternating with shots of them looking all pensive and anguished…in SPACE...
Oftentimes, our complaints about Harvard are problems that are well within our ability to change, and the accumulated wisdom that grows from stronger peer advising and more frequent extracurricular collaboration might be enough to do just that. The lessons Harvard students can learn from these kinds of collaborations, both on a personal and group level, can extend far beyond the confines of course selection or meeting scheduling. By seeing other students as peers rather than competitors and other groups as allies rather than opponents, we can grow as individuals and as organizations and learn skills and values that will serve...
...activated (known as the K4 state). Conversely, if the methyl group attaches itself to another part of the protein, the gene is deactivated (known as the K27 state). The study of mouse ES cells, published in the April 21 issue of Cell, is revolutionary because it overturns previous conventional wisdom regarding the K4 and K27 states. “What we found was that [mouse ES cells] have a chromatin signature that other cells don’t have—they have both a K4 and K27 signature, which was surprising because we thought they were mutually exclusive...