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  • Campus & Community

    Older doctors less likely to follow current standards for care

    Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine that older physicians may be less likely to deliver currently accepted standards of care. The studys findings show that the number of years a doctor has been in practice may decrease the likelihood of the doctor providing technically appropriate care.

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    Make it seven

    The pace of Tuesdays (Feb. 15) womens Beanpot championship game at Northeastern Universitys Matthews Arena was decidedly fast and frantic. For the Boston College womens hockey team, the whole ordeal mustve been a bit infuriating as well.

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    Sports in brief

    Men’s squash nabs Ivy League title The No. 2 Harvard men’s squash team captured its 36th outright Ivy League title with a 6-3 win over visiting Yale this past Saturday…

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    No consolation

    Crimson goalie Dov Grumet-Morris 05 makes a diving save on a shot by B.C.s Stephen Gionta in the consolation Beanpot game at the FleetCenter on Feb. 14. The Eagles beat the Crimson, 4-1.

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    Research in brief

    New treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia Using rational drug design strategies, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland, have created a targeted therapy for chronic myelogenous…

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Film Archive to remember Malcolm X this month In memory of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X this month, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and…

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    Newsmakers

    Real Fundación de Toledo awards Márquez prize Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Francisco Márquez was awarded the Premio Especial by the Real Fundación de Toledo…

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    The Big Picture

    Five years ago, Jennifer Shultis was a competitive equestrienne who rarely ran, had never mountain biked, and had what she calls a normal fear of heights.

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    Talk to the hand (it’s for a good cause)

    Bakang Komunyane (from left), Rangarirai Miambo, Saritha Komatireddy, Monica Soni, and Aimee Miller practice a dance routine in preparation for Changing the Tide, a performance to raise funds for areas devastated by the recent tsunami in South Asia. The event takes place Saturday (Feb. 19), at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. For tickets, call the…

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    Refugees give glimpse of human rights, prisons in North Korea

    A one-time South Korean prisoner of conscience cautioned against using human rights as a political weapon against North Korea Thursday (Feb. 10) despite new details of horrific conditions in the communist nations political detention system.

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    President Summers holds office hours

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    And alone came Tim…

    Yes! Hasty Puddings 2005 Man of the Year, the delightful and affable Tim Robbins, will be at the Hasty Pudding Theatre tonight to enjoy the opening of Terms of Frontierment. There will be a champagne reception for Robbins at 7 p.m., followed by a roast of and then presentation of the Pudding Pot to the…

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    This month in Harvard history

    February 1950 – A capacity Sanders Theatre crowd hears Eleanor Roosevelt discuss “The World Struggle for Human Rights,” as guest of Harvard’s United Nations Council. She urges the U.S. to…

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    Zeta-Jones misses parade

    Asked during her press conference if her husband Michael Douglas, Hasty Pudding Man of the Year 1992, had given her any advice about how to comport herself during her own ceremonial ordeal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, the 2005 Woman of the Year, replied: Whatever they do, just give it right back to them, honey.

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    Cool brown dwarf may give birth to planets

    Solar systems like our own may be forming around dim stars scattered all over the Milky Way. It’s possible that some of these systems could harbor planets with water and…

  • Campus & Community

    The accidental ‘best friend’

    Harvard researchers studying Siberian foxes have uncovered evidence that the ability to interpret human expressions and gestures that helped transform the wild wolf into humankind’s cooperative “best friend” may have…

  • Health

    Long-term Celebrex use increases cardiovascular event risk

    The findings prompted the suspension of Celebrex within the Adenoma Prevention with Celecoxib (APC) Trial, in which participants were to take celecoxib or placebo for three years. “These data suggest…

  • Health

    Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care

    The study included a review of previously published papers with a large sample size of doctors. These studies included measures of physician knowledge or quality of care as well as…

  • Science & Tech

    Functional protein changes caught and quantified

    Just knowing that a protein is expressed in a cell does not reveal what it is up to; increasingly, the chemical modifications it undergoes are the key to understanding its…

  • Campus & Community

    Decades of dedication

    Some years ago, a student who had graduated with excellent grades from one of the traditional black colleges applied for admission to Harvard Medical School (HMS). Alvin Poussaint, faculty associate dean of student affairs, urged the admissions committee to accept him, but many were skeptical.

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    The Cantoria Code

    The choir loft, or cantoria, in the Sistine Chapel is a smallish, 8-foot-by-12-foot nook carved into the stone of the chapel wall and dimly illuminated through its original colored glass window. For the first three and a half centuries of the chapels history (it was built in the 1470s), only singers were allowed to enter…

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    Dramatist Busch teaches master class

    For Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergists Wife, the dark side of having a play on Broadway was that people would come up to him and ask how it felt to finally become mainstream.

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    Paul Bénichou

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences December 14, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    Arthur K. Solomon

    At a meeting of the Committee of Memorial Minutes of the Faculty of Medicine Dec. 16, 2004, the following Minute was selected.

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    Voices heard on African development, education

    Despite – and because of – their very different approaches, policy-makers and education specialists from UNESCO, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) convened on Saturday (Feb. 5) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to discuss how to facilitate better interagency cooperation. They…

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    At the corner of ‘Sesame Street and Appian Way, HGSE, Sesame Workshop announce collaboration

    Grover, the furry blue monster of Sesame Street fame, held a press conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Tuesday (Feb. 8) to announce the Harvard School of Grover, a new school of all the major majors, including not only law, medicine, and business but also hotel and restaurant management and air conditioning…

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    Simulations show growth of black holes

    Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself. The model explains for the first time observed phenomena, and promises to deliver deeper insights into our understanding of galaxy formation and the role of…

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    Ambassador hails Indian-U.S. partnership

    Indias ambassador to the United States hailed a growing partnership between the two nations Tuesday (Feb. 8), saying the diversity of their populations and strength of their democracies align the two countries interests.

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    Newsom defends gay marriage at forum

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who excited the ire of many with his decision to marry gay couples contrary to state law, told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum Tuesday night (Feb. 8) that he remains committed to marriage equality.