Education

Ph.D.s Ditch the Lab
By CLIFFORD MARKS
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 4:04 AM
As Harvard expands its Ph.D. programs in the sciences, graduates seeking jobs in academia face the bleakest employment prospects in decades. Alumni like Donald M. Prather, who left Harvard in 2005 with a Ph.D. in genetics, have been forced to seek jobs with higher pay and better prospects outside the ivory tower.
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UC Berkeley Lectures Now Available on YouTube
By STEPHANIE LEE
Friday, November 2, 2007 11:11 AM
Everything from vintage TV show episodes to music video parodies dot the landscape of YouTube. Now, so do UC Berkeley physics lectures.
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New Possibilities in the Post-Early Admissions Era
By WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS
Saturday, July 7, 2007 1:01 PM
Eliminating early admission is a significant step in reforming a college admissions process that has spun out of control in recent years. It also creates new possibilities for reaching out to promising students who might not otherwise consider Harvard.
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Environment

Sustainable Clean Water Projects
By GREG KATZ
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:06 PM
Engineering innovative ways to provide developing communities with more access to clean water has been attempted for decades by the developed world but with very little success.

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Science & Tech

Harvard Researchers Dispute ESP
By JESSICA HENDERSON
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 4:04 AM
Harvard psychologists have released a study that they say provides the most convincing evidence yet against the existence of extrasensory perception (ESP).
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OLPC and Intel Collaborate on Laptop for Developing Countries
By NICK BUSHAK
Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:06 AM
As it moves toward beginning full-scale production of the XO (also known as the $100 Laptop) in October, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation has increased the price of its laptop from previous estimates to approximately $188 per laptop. In addition, the non-profit has announced a “Give 1 Get 1” program allowing the public to donate $399 that will enable the foundation to give a laptop to a child in the developing world. The foundation will give donors a laptop in consideration for their donation.
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Service

Portman talks microfinance
By ROXNA IRANI
Sunday, October 14, 2007 4:04 AM
Award-winning actress and social activist Natalie Portman addressed a packed Kresge auditorium last night as part of the Social Innovators Series, motivating her audience to fight poverty worldwide through microfinance, an area in which the Hollywood superstar has considerable experience.
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Arts & Entertainment

Commentary Track - This Week: He Likes to Watch
By LOUIS PEITZMAN
Friday, November 2, 2007 11:11 AM
As fun as it is to hear me ramble every week, by now you’re probably ready for something different. Lucky for you, I snagged an interview with Brian Faas. He’s an associate producer and commentator on VH1’s “Best Week Ever,” as well as host of the www.bestweekever.tv video podcast "I Like to Watch," a round-up of the week's best and worst DVD releases.
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Run, Lola, Run
By NATHAN PFLUEGER
Monday, August 13, 2007 10:10 PM
Run Lola Run is a story of consequences: a colorful and kinetic tumble down the rabbit hole of cause and effect. Three slightly different beginnings produce endless variations in the futures of the characters, suggesting a sort of chaos in events.
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Remembering Nanking
By MICHAEL SUEN
Sunday, August 12, 2007 2:02 AM
"The words 'forgotten' and 'Holocaust' should not be in the same sentence," says Oscar-winning director Bill Guttentag ("Twin Towers", "Live!"), in an interview with Symbi about his new documentary, "Nanking".
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Career Talk

Report: California Top State for Number of ‘Insourced’ Workers
By JANE SHIN
Sunday, October 14, 2007 5:05 AM
A report released last week says California leads the nation in the number of “insourced” employees, many of whom are concentrated in the East Bay.
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Drama grads face tough path
By COURTNEY LONG
Sunday, July 8, 2007 3:03 PM
Members of the School of Drama Class of 2007 strut their stuff in front of agents, casting directors and others in the theater industry as part of the Theater Showcase, hoping to impress them enough to secure an agent, a gig or even a job post-graduation.
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Extras

Fearing Fear
By TIM FORREST
Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:11 PM
I fear that fear is the feared undiscovered biological weapon of mass
destruction. I believe, like so many others, that I was severely traumatized by the
events, television images and ideas I consumed consequent to September
11, 2001.
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Debates on political visits
By PATRICK K. FITZGERALD
Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:06 AM
Last week’s visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Columbia University brought the debate over campus politics and academic freedom — a debate already brewing at Stanford since the Hoover Institution announced the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a distinguished visiting fellow in mid-September — to the national spotlight.
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ChEnglish
By ADA TSO
Monday, August 13, 2007 9:09 PM
When I arrive home from school, my parents make their daily inquiry as to how my day was. As I set down my bulky backpack, I reply, “Oh, jin tian really mei you anything happen. Wo xian zai hen busy though, yin wei ze ge week you san ge huge de tests.”
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