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A couple of weeks ago, when Harvard University withdrew its invitation to Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist to speak at a forum on immigration, Gilchrist could be heard whining that he was being unfairly smeared for his incendiary rhetoric.

We hypothesize that startups can enhance their early performance by 1) establishing alliances, 2) configuring them into an efficient network that provides access to diverse information and capabilities with minimum costs of redundancy, conflict, and complexity, and 3) judiciously allying with potential rivals that provide more opportunity for ...

Kumon opens its largest and first after-school program in the West Village on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from noon to 4 p.m. at 80 Carmine Street .

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 A study published this week in PNAS provides a comprehensive comparative functional anatomy study in human and monkey brains which reveals highly similar brain networks preserved across evolution.

The music of singer, songwriter and pianist Rachel Efron is known for its poetic lyrics and soulful tunes.

The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference.

What I'm Seeing This Week A Christmas Carol , Pirate Radio , and The Box . My quick thoughts on each; I don't quite get why Jim Carrey had to play eight parts in Christmas Carol , Pirate Radio evidently had huge problems before finally getting a new title and release date, and Cameron Diaz threw out a major spoiler for The Box when I was at The San ...

New Delhi, Nov. 4: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale have told India they are ready to join efforts to start 'world class' universities in the country, government officials said today.

Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways.

Experts say that major causes of car accidents are driver distractions. Such distractions include cell phones, rubbernecking, tailgating, driver fatigue, etc.

A former Israeli politician and member of the Israeli Defense Force urged students to advocate for Israel and fight the influence of radical ideologues.

When some 600 atheists, agnostics and other nonreligious folks gather in Seattle starting Friday for a Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, there will be an emphatically non prayer breakfast.

Nov. 4 -- Indra Nooyi, chief executive officer of PepsiCo Inc., and Niall Ferguson, a professor at Harvard University commented on the outlook for capitalism during a panel discussion yesterday at the Aspen Institute's "Capitalism and the Future" forum at the New York Public Library.

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre. We need to recall it so something like it never happens again.

Scientists need the same sort of computer breakthrough that the spreadsheet brought to business users decades ago, says Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.

President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.

Though only one religion is officially endorsed at the Ogden LDS Institute, there is one class that brings the teachings of all world religions into one classroom.

In honor of her October 29 birthday, we look at the life and career of longtime politician and economist-in-exile Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who became the first elected female president in Africa when she won the 2006 general election in Liberia.

An intravenous tubing during a chemotherapy treatment. Doctors will diagnose 1.35 million new cases of breast cancer this year across the globe, which will account for 10.5 per cent of all new cancer cases, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.

When David Edwards first unveiled an inhaler which puffs micro-particles of chocolate into your mouth he never expected the initial production run of his 'Le Whif' to sell out in less than a month.