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CAMBRIDGE – Hate crimes in America have picked up steam since a massacre at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee shocked the world more than three years ago. But outreach groups are using lessons from the Sikh faith to help prevent further tragedies. "We cannot address trauma by vilifying the '
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who saw parallels in the functioning of the human brain and computers, died Sunday at age 88. The university said Minsky died Sunday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in
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BOSTON (AP) — Winter is bearing down anew, and Harvard University students have been engineering new ways to deal with it. Eighteen juniors representing several engineering disciplines in professor David Mooney's problem-solving and design class spent the fall semester inventing a robotic remote-control rooftop snowblower, a superheated icicle cutter
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BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's bid for a new trial and ordered him to pay victims of the deadly attack more than $101 million in restitution. The restitution order, issued by Judge George O'Toole Jr., is seen as
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NEW CANAAN, Conn. (AP) — Businessman and philanthropist Ted Stanley, who made one of the largest private donations for scientific research, has died, his son said Monday. He was 85. Stanley died peacefully in his bed overnight at his home in New Canaan, son Jonathan Stanley said. No cause of death
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BOSTON – It's the season of giving, but to what extent Hub residents respond appears to vary widely from one neighborhood to another, with the wealthiest giving the most while donation ratios in some of the poorest quarters easily outstrip those of their more well-off neighbors. And that'
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CAMBRIDGE – A Harvard University poll shows that most American millennials believe the U.S. should intensify the fight against Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East with more ground troops – but few said they would willingly join the service to help. While 60 percent of those surveyed said they would
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CAMBRIDGE – Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow wants a special committee of faculty and students to gather views on whether the school's seal, which features imagery from the family crest of a slaveholder benefactor, should be changed. Minow announced the panel's members and its purpose
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