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Big Pharmaceutical Ties at Harvard Medical
by Alexandra Andrews, ProPublica.org - March 3, 2009 11:41 am EST Two rival gangs are battling it out at Harvard Medical School. No, they're not fashioning makeshift weapons out of stethoscopes and tongue depressors, but there are millions of dollars at stake, along with what some say is Harvard's reputation. The first group, made up of around 200 students and faculty members, is "intent on exposing and curtailing the industry influence in their classrooms and laboratories, as well as in Harvard's 17 affiliated teaching hospitals and institutes," reports today's New York Times.J.K. Rowling Urges Harvard Grads to "Imagine Better"
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling encouraged graduates to "imagine better" in a commencement speech at Harvard University Thursday. "We do not need magic to transform our world," she said.Holder's Decision "Reasonable"
Jim Comey, a deputy attorney general and U.S. attorney in Manhattan during the Bush administration, is general counsel of Lockheed Martin Corp. Jack Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general during the Bush administration, teaches at Harvard Law School and is on the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law.Holocaust denial ad run in Harvard Crimson
Harvard Crimson says Holocaust denial ad published by accident By Evan BuxbaumCNN (CNN) -- Harvard University, one of America's premiere academic institutions, is coming under fire for running an advertisement in its campus newspaper questioning the reality of the Holocaust. Recently named for the second straight year as the No. 1 school in U.S.Peggy Noonan to Lead Harvard Study Group
http://gawker.com/5367203/harvard-students-stop-whatever-youre-doing-and-register-for-peggy-noonans-class-now You do not want to miss the weekly festival of swooning self-regard and misty incoherence that will be Peggy Noonan's "Study Group" for undergrads this year, during her fellowship at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Let's read the syllabus. For some ungodly reason, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government saw fit to make Noonan a fellow this year.Pollution's Toll on the Brain
In these days of hybrid cars and carbon credits, it is common knowledge that substances exhaled by autos and coal plants are harmful to our respiratory system. What may be surprising is the degree to which they may harm the brain—in some instances, as much as exposure to lead. A recent string of studies from all over the world suggests that common air pollutants such as black carbon, particulate matter and ozone can negatively affect vocabulary, reaction times and even overall intelligence.
Battered Company Says 'No' To Job Cuts
The Hypertherm factory sits hidden in the woods not far from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Inside, in a testing room, a jet of superheated ionized gas slices smoothly through an inch of plate steel. Jim Miller, vice president of manufacturing, says that when the world is making big heavy things, Hypertherm does quite well.Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100
By David Henry
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aY43vBHLDM6I
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Claude Levi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist who influenced generations of intellectuals with his ideas on culture and said the human species would become extinct, has died. He was 100.
Side Effects not Always Due to H1N1 Vaccine
LONDON (AP) -- Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a new study says. As millions of people worldwide begin getting the new swine flu shot, public health officials are bracing for rumors about dangerous side effects linked to the vaccine. To provide context, experts combed hospital databases and population samples in Britain, Canada, Finland, the United States and elsewhere to find daily baseline rates of commonly reported events like Guillain-Barre syndrome, sudden deaths, seizures and abortions.Bush family political heir is shipping off to war
This is from Yahoo! News' blog... I just though it was interesting.
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