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“The Heritability of the Longitudinal Arch of the Foot.” “Optogenetic Control of Excitatory Neurons in the Mouse Somatosensory Cortex.” “Double Emulsion Microbubbles: A Targeted Theranostic Approach to Noninvasive Drug Delivery.” …
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In an increasingly partisan country, one issue threatens both sides and the integrity of the democracy on which America was built. The messy and corrupt realm of campaign finance has been …
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Andy Borowitz of the New Yorker recently tweeted, “I worry that all the cheap jokes about Romney wanting to kill Big Bird will make people forget that he wants to …
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Boston University students have heard about it all too much: athletes committing sexual assaults, frats hazing, peeping toms in dorms, assaults in the library, and the Freep’s bad judgement in …
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If I am to believe the thirteen million or so articles written on the topic, we young, twentysomething, soon-to-be college-graduates are on the fast track to Disastertown, next stop: unemployment. …
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Women’s employment is a hot topic. In the last presidential debate, Mitt Romney set the Internet ablaze with his response to a question about women in the workforce. His “binders …
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Life at BU is a curious kind of existence. In many ways, it’s every inch an urban university. In other ways, BU is enclosed in a social, geographical, and economic …
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On November 6, Massachusetts voters will answer Question 3: Should the state of Massachusetts legalize medical marijuana? The state statute known as the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Initiative reads as follows: …
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COM senior Jasmine Daniel was nervous about moving away from home and into a college dorm for the first time when she began her four years at Boston University. For …
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Boston University Academy (BUA) shares Boston University’s name and its campus, but few University students know very much about it. It’s a shame, too, because University students could probably stand …
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Last issue, The Quad addressed the topic of environmental policy and sustainability in Boston. To better understand Boston University’s own environmental progress, I sat down with Dennis Carlberg, our Sustainability …
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In 2009, rapper Asher Roth told us why he loved college. A year later, Boston’s own Sammy Adams decided that even though he hated college, maybe the parties and girls …
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