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Harvard scientists successfully make fly-like robots that can hover, fly around
US scientists have devised tiny winged robots inspired by flies that could one day help pollinate crops or aid the search for survivors at collapse sites — once they get off the leash, that is. The prototypes by researchers at Harvard University weigh 80 milligrams and have managed short controlled…
Harvard rounds up emails to find professor who leaked cheating scandal
Boston Globe reports the Ivy League university secretly spied on emails during investigation into leak about cheating scandal A covert security operation at Harvard University saw the emails of 16 resident deans secretly searched in an attempt to unmask the culprit who leaked details of a cheating scandal at the…
Dozens suspended in Harvard cheating scandal: report
Around 60 students at Harvard University have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college, a report in the campus newspaper said Friday. The Harvard Crimson quoted an email from Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael Smith that said more than half of…
Supporter complains to Ryan: ‘Educated people’ are ‘telling me what to do’
A woman who said she had graduated from Harvard began crying on Tuesday as she told Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan that “educated people” were “telling me what to do.” At a town hall event in Dover, New Hampshire, the woman, who said she was a first-generation American with…
Harvard probes mass cheating in ‘Intro to Congress’ course
NEW YORK — As many as 125 students at Harvard University are being probed for allegedly cheating in a final exam at the elite institution, administrators said Thursday. The official university site news.harbard.edu/gazette reported that a large number of undergraduates “may have inappropriately collaborated on answers, or plagiarized classmates’ responses,…
Elizabeth Warren: Washington rigged for big corporations
Harvard professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren announced Wednesday that she would challenge Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R) as a Democrat in 2012. “I’m going to do this, I’m going to run for the United States Senate,” she said in an announcement uploaded to YouTube. “And the reason is straightforward.…
Winklevoss twins end appeal of Facebook settlement
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling upholding their $65 million settlement with Facebook Inc and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, signaling the possible end of the long-running dispute. The 2008 accord was intended to resolve a feud over whether Zuckerberg stole…
As Internet ‘hypergiants’ proliferate, attacks on human rights increasingly common: study
Amid the rise of the Internet’s “hypergiants” — the massive Internet service providers (ISPs) and network operators at the core of Earth’s global communications platform — smaller media organizations and human rights groups have found themselves on the network’s outer fringes, and frequently the targets of devastating cyber-attacks. That’s according…
John McCain thinks all liberals went to Harvard
This rant by John McCain about the DADT repeal is something else: Direct quote: And you know, we’ll repeal it. And all over America, they’ll be gold stars put up in windows in the rural towns and communities all over America that don’t partake in the elite schools that bar…
Obama aide’s exit could be prelude to more changes
Obama’s loss of top economic adviser Lawrence Summers could set stage for postelection changes. The departure of President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser at the end of the year could provide the White House with an opportunity to revamp its economic team after the November elections, when voters are expected…
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