It had been a week since the Soviet-era military helicopter dropped him
and his colleagues at the edge of a northern Siberian river. And Andy Knoll
was still waiting for the ice to melt.

Knoll, a paleontologist and professor of natural history at Harvard University,
has paddled a raft downstream against whipping Siberian winds, practiced
shooting a rifle to ward off polar bears in Greenland, and endured countless
nights in tents in remote locations around the globe, from an African desert to
islands north of Norway.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/10/26/the_story_of_
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Doctors get first view of devastating disease (The Boston Globe)
By CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON 
October 26, 2004

Almost a century ago, scientists proposed that schizophrenia could be caused
by disrupted brain connections, but only now are imaging technologies allowing
scientists to find physical evidence linking schizophrenic patients' symptoms to
 thin neural webs.

The work, which was also done at Harvard Medical School and the University of
Massachusetts at Boston, will help map different symptoms onto specific brain areas,
and give doctors a new tool in the fight against the disease.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2004/10/26/doctors_get_
first_view_of_devastating_disease/ click url to read

3. The Dorms May Be Great, but How's the Counseling? (The New York Times)
By MARY DUENWALD

A few weeks ago, the parents of a Harvard student told Dr. Richard Kadison, the
chief of the university's mental health service, that they suspected their daughter
had a serious drug problem. 

"The student in question argued that, although she needed some help, her problem
was not substance abuse," Dr. Kadison said. "From my standpoint, the problem was
not who's right and who's wrong or what's the diagnosis, but whether she is getting
the right help."

The college campus can be a stressful place. Surveys show that the number of college
students with mental health problems of all types is steadily increasing.

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Harvard Business School Gets $25M Gift (Associated Press)
 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 October 25, 2004

 BOSTON (AP) -- Harvard Business School has received a $25 million donation in support of its doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss, an entrepreneur who built Synthes Inc., a leading international medical device company.

The gift, part of the school's $500 million capital campaign, is the largest ever given to a business school doctoral program, the school said Monday.

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Zhongshan University to Get Books from Harvard (China Daily)
 Updated: 2004-10-26 16:51

A total of 150,000 academic books will be donated to Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen)
University in Guangzhou by Harvard University in 2005, according to an agreement
signed between the libraries of the two universities Sunday.

Librarian Nancy Cline from the Hilles Library of the U.S. university and Huang Daren,
the president of Zhongshan University, attended the signing ceremony.

The 150,000 books in 12,000 different categories or subjects are mainly arts, politics,
sociology, women's studies and music. Zhongshan University said the value of the books
exceeded 120 million yuan (US$15 million). They were expected to arrive between
May and June in 2005.

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 At Harvard-Smithsonian, a new way to look at the moon (The Boston Globe)
October 26, 2004

The Earth's shadow will engulf the moon Wednesday in a dramatic total eclipse.
Local observatories are billing the eclipse -- the last total lunar eclipse to be seen
on the east coast until 2007 -- as a must-see, as long as the weather is clear. The
Earth's shadow will begin nibbling at the moon at 9:14 p.m. and last for an hour
and 22 minutes. The new Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, which inaugurated
its 25-inch telescope earlier this month, will offer a free viewing from 8 p.m. until midnight.

 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2004/10/26/at_harvard_smithsonian_
a_new_way_to_look_at_the_moon/ click url to read