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Flipping the Bird

The surprising strategy for minimizing precooked food waste.

By Summer Moore Batte

Farm Report

Sports Briefs

It's All About Readiness
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It's All About Readiness

Coach Shaw plans ahead

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Smoking Out an Industry's Tricks

How tobacco wooed us

Research Notebook
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Research Notebook

Lost Marbles Finally Replaced
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Lost Marbles Finally Replaced

Cast in stone, again

by Ryan Eshoff

A Step Backward for Racial Integration in Schools
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A Step Backward for Racial Integration in Schools

Integration takes a hit

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Know They Can Dance

Gotta dance

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Data Driven

A numbers game

by Benjy Mercer-Golden

What's to Be Done After Newtown?
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What's to Be Done After Newtown?

Would gun control prevent another Newtown?

Nature Nurtured
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Nature Nurtured

Geneticist Virginia Walbot, '67, helped pioneer a path for women scientists decades ago. Today, her research is unlocking important mysteries about how plants develop.

by Krisin Sainani