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Health
Tobacco deaths a developing problem
Research published in the Sept. 13, 2003 issue of the medical journal The Lancet shows that global tobacco deaths were about 4.8 million in 2000, with about 2.4 million each…
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Science & Tech
Researchers make new compounds from protein
Over the years, scientists have repeatedly sought to use a cell’s protein-making process to create new drugs and other compounds. They have had some dramatic successes, such as inducing bacteria…
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Science & Tech
Seeing the hole truth
Folding is a big deal in biology. It not only changes a molecule’s shape but its function. Take the proteins made by genes. Folded one way, they can activate processes…
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Health
Wine molecule slows aging process
Called resveratrol, a wonder substance discovered by Harvard researchers seems to work in the same way as does drastic calorie cutting. Dramatic reduction of calories has been shown to increase…
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Health
Longer life for blood
Blood platelets, which are transfused into those who lose too much blood from wounds, major surgery, or cancer treatments, can be kept for only five days. Then they must be…
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Health
Death and survival proteins work together
At a cellular level, life-sustaining activities such as glucose metabolism were thought to be carried out by entirely different proteins from those involved in apoptosis, or cell death. “People in…
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Health
Discovery of inner ear cells may lead to new therapies
A research team led by Stefan Heller, a principal investigator at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary’s Eaton-Peabody Laboratory and assistant professor at the Department of Otology and Laryngology at…
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Health
Early molecule fingered as an Alzheimer’s cause
“The way we look at it, Alzheimer’s disease is really cancer of the brain,” says Rachael Neve, Harvard Medical School associate professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital. “But neurons cannot…
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Campus & Community
Drawing on all your resources to explore the nature of drawing:
If your goal is to go home with a nice picture of an earthenware pitcher and a bowl of apples that you can frame and give to your Aunt Ida, better go somewhere else. Here its all about process, not product.
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Campus & Community
Gross assembles senior staff, completes integration of offices:
Benedict H. Gross, dean of Harvard College, has assembled his senior staff for the Office of the Dean of Harvard College and completed the consolidation of this office with the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, as begun this spring.
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Head coach of W’s lax named Two-time All-American Sarah (Downing) Nelson ’94 has been named head coach of the Harvard women’s lacrosse team. After starring on three Ivy championship teams…
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Campus & Community
HBS rugby set to roll
The Harvard Business School (HBS) rugby team will open its fall 2003 season with a pair of home matches against the Boston Irish Wolfhounds Rugby Club on Sept. 13. The teams pitch is located next to Harvard Stadium and the action kicks off at noon. For more information, visit the squads Web site at http://sa.hbs.edu/rugby/.
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Campus & Community
Food, frolic, and no rain:
Despite forecasts to the contrary, weather held a tentative truce with Harvards 28th annual Senior Picnic on Aug. 6, treating the 1,100 Cambridge senior citizens to a rain-free, albeit humid, celebration of friendship and community.
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Campus & Community
Writer Battles’ unusual muse is a library
Roaming the stacks of Widener Library as a selector for the HD Push Project – which processed books for transfer to the Harvard Depository – Matthew Battles, mesmerized by rows and rows and rows of volumes, began to ponder his surroundings – the library. With Widener as an ever-present muse and a valuable resource, Battles…
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Campus & Community
You don’t say:
A former boss of mine once called me a scissor-bill. I concluded that it was not a term of endearment, but I didnt know what it meant.
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Campus & Community
Zelen Award committee names winner, seeks nominations
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health named Wayne A. Fuller, professor in liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University, the recipient of the 2003 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Fuller delivered a lecture at Harvard titled Analytic Studies with Complex Survey Data this past May.
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Campus & Community
Orr named director for research at Belfer Ctr.
Robert C. Orr, a leading authority on nation building and peace operations, has been named executive director for Research of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Campus & Community
HLS Web site gives access to Nuremberg Trials documents:
You wouldnt expect a collection of crumbling documents from a trial that occurred more than half a century ago to still have power to shock, but Harry S. Martin, director of the Law School Library, knows better.
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Campus & Community
Common painkillers reduce risk of Parkinson’s
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, in the first study to investigate the potential benefit in humans of the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) in reducing the risk of Parkinsons disease, have found that regular users of these drugs had a lower risk for Parkinsons disease than nonusers. The findings appear in…
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Campus & Community
Despite economy, PBHA camps thrive:
Preparing for their positions as co-directors of a Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) summer day camp, Kristin Garcia 05 and Chris Vena 05 had a jam-packed semester this past spring. Into their Harvard studies they shoehorned the sorts of real-world duties that would make their camp – the Franklin I-O Summer Program in Dorchester -…
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Campus & Community
Faculty, staff tell us what to read at the beach
What makes a great summer? Warm weather, cloudless skies, a blanket on the sand or an Adirondack chair by the lake, and, above all, a stack of reading matter that includes all the books you meant to read all year but didnt have the time.
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Campus & Community
Chefs shake up college dining conventions:
Somewhere between seared tilapia and popcorn chicken, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Council of Chefs is cooking up a revolution. Assembled just over a year ago, the council – a critical mass of culinary talent, according to Alexandra McNitt, director for marketing and communications at HUDS – is in charge of creating and executing menus…
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Campus & Community
‘Training the trainers’ to fight AIDS battle:
Taped on the side of a gray filing cabinet in Eric Krakauers Harvard Medical School office is a black-and-white photograph of a 4-year-old Vietnamese girl holding a bowl of food and wearing a sour expression.
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Campus & Community
New busing controversy flares up:
Youve seen the billboards: Natural gas: The clean alternative. But is it?
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Campus & Community
Widener ILL is No. 1 lender in N.E. area
The Interlibrary Loan Division (ILL) at Widener Library is the No. 1 lender in the New England area according to statistics recently published by the New England Library Network (NELINET). ILL received, processed, and shipped 18,075 loans or copies through the national Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in the year 2002.
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Campus & Community
Former N.H. Gov. Sununu to join KSG as visiting professor:
Former White House chief of staff and New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu will join the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government this fall. Sununu will serve as Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service, announced Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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Campus & Community
Lehane speaks at Summer School:
With his sixth novel, Mystic River, landing on bestseller lists and soon to be released as a Clint Eastwood-directed film, Dennis Lehane is, without a doubt, a successful writer.