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BPA chemical leaches from plastic drinking bottles into people »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
In 2008, Harvard undergraduate Scott Elfenbein was part of a two-week study to determine if drinking from the popular hard-plastic bottles increased levels of BPA ...
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Automated Telescope Network Finds Neptune-Sized World »
Posted by: altnrg 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth.
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Harvard: Lab Workers Poisoned by Tainted Coffee »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, according to university officials. In an ...
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Slump Revives Town-Gown Divide Across U.S. »
Posted by: engineer 6 months ago in News
Some cities and towns — including Ann Arbor, Mich., Durham, N.C., and Princeton, N.J. — have renewed calls for local colleges and universities to make ...
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Can Gene Mutations Generate Immortality? Harvard Research Team Says "Yes" »
Posted by: ebookey 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Scientists are working on mutations to generate immortality. This is not a comic book. Early experiments have greatly extended the lifespan of bioengineered worms, enhancing ...
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Obama begins chat with officer, Harvard professor - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: gandalff 3 months, 1 week ago in News
The beer is flowing. President Barack Obama has begun his chat with the two men he joined last week at the center of an uproar ...
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New Way Of Reading Light With Help Locate Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 6 months ago in Science & Technology
ScienceDaily (May 12, 2009) — Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists today are able to ...
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Harvard Research Links Medical Costs and Personal Bankruptcy, Even with Health Insurance »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 1 week ago in News
Some look at universal health care as helping only the underprivileged. But a new Harvard study shows some sobering facts: not only do 62% of ...
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Is Afghanistan the New Africa? »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Kabul now boasts its own high-dollar airport road, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is notorious for its lack of ...
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Obama: Health Care Reform is No Longer a Luxury »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months ago in Political News
One day after a report on a Harvard study was released that showed that 62% of personal bankruptcies result from medical costs, even hitting th ...
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Commentary: Latino in the Ivy League - CNN.com »
Posted by: UnusualSuspect 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
I'd like Sotomayor to know that, even though she arrived at Princeton University in 1972 (the year I started kindergarten), I have a good ...
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Police Hunt for Clues on Missing Student »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Family
Family members have canceled the wedding of a Yale University graduate student who vanished days before her New York nuptials as more than 100 investigators ...
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Henry Louis Gates: Déjà Vu All Over Again »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
As the story unfolded in the press and on the Internet, I flashed back 20 years or so to the time when Gates arrived in ...
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New occupants get cooking in Julia Child’s former house - The Boston Globe »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months, 1 week ago in Family
But Lisa Landsverk, the new owner of the grand Victorian home on Irving Street in Cambridge where Julia Child, the doyenne of la cuisine bourgeoise ...
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Obama Friends Count: Crazy, racist preacher. Homegrown terrorist.Crazy professor who screams at police »
Posted by: alanocu 3 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Obama: “I can’t disown my statement about Cambridge police anymore than I can disown being a moron.”
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