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Premature twins are youngest fundraisers

Eyeing her twins for the first time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at New England Medical Center in June of last year, Jennifer Horgan did not experience the wondrous sense of satisfaction typically felt by a mother of newborns. Hours earlier, Kathleen Grace and Thomas Gregory, Jr., were delivered 14 weeks prematurely by an emergency C-section and weighed about two pounds each.

Differences Observed

Relics from two close but distant Chinese cultures

$3.1 million for NMRC
Bioengineering team grant pumps up muscle research

Whether it’s a pair of hands subtly interpreting Chopin on a piano keyboard or the deceptively simple act of walking, every movement of the body is controlled by distinct patterns of electronic pulses decoded, thousands at a time, by individual muscle fibers.

Class act
Rx for a wired generation
Less than 48 hours before, they had piled mountains of twist-tied bags and boxes into dorms and said goodbye to anxious parents. Now BU’s newest students marched en masse onto Harry Agganis Way, trading looks of bemusement and bravado and sensing, all of a sudden, a need for decorum.

Physics workshop schools secondary teachers in high-tech research

At the beginning of each school year, the expressions on the faces of students in Tom Donnelly’s 12th-grade physics class at North Quincy High are as tremulous as a proton speeding toward a collision in a particle accelerator.

Goldman School to gauge effectiveness of new preventive medicine program

SMG forms partnership with Chinese university

Sports
Terrier men's soccer a work in progress this year

2 March 2001
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