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Year: 2003
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Campus & Community
In brief
Temporary teachers sought As part of the Harvard School Vacation Program, Work/Life and Family Resources is looking for teachers or teacher assistants to work with school-age children of University faculty and staff for four days during the public school vacation from Feb. 18 to Feb. 21. Salary and hours to be arranged. For more information,…
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Campus & Community
President and Provost office hours
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council notice for Jan. 8
At its seventh meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the implications for the Faculty of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act and other recent and related government legislation and regulation. Deputy General Counsel Robert Iuliano and Professor Paul Martin, dean for Research and Information Technology in FAS were present for this discussion.
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Campus & Community
‘Paycheck changes for staff’ correction
A chart that accompanied the Dec. 12, 2002, Gazette article titled Paycheck changes for staff contained an error. The charts last two headings were inadvertently transposed. The corrected headings appear in the chart above. The Gazette regrets the error.
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Campus & Community
Police issue advisory:
On Dec. 21, at approximately 4:30 a.m., three Harvard Business School students were the victims of an armed robbery at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street. The victims reported that two males approached them from behind, produced two small handguns, and proceeded to take the wallet of one of the victims. One of…
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Campus & Community
Let it snow!
At least one figure in the Winthrop House courtyard was unfazed by one of the many snowfalls that has whitened Cambridge and the rest of New England recently.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College announces early admissions figures
Despite a substantial jump in Early Action applications to Harvard College this year, the number of admitted students remained at roughly the same level as the previous five years. A total of 1,150 students were admitted this year from a record pool of 7,620. Last year, 1,174 of 6,126 applicants were admitted.
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Health
Hundreds of thousands with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis could be saved
A study has provided the first hard evidence that outpatient community care in poor, urban shantytowns can work for the most difficult to treat form of tuberculosis. The multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment model could ultimately help save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. Among those who completed at least four months of therapy, the percentage with…
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Health
Testosterone drives away the blues
In the 1940s, experiments showed that major depression can be relieved by injecting testosterone into men with low levels of that hormone. The treatment never caught on because the shots are painful, and effective antidepressant drugs started coming to market. More recently, however, testosterone patches and gels became available. In June 2000, the United States…
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Health
Study finds frequent consumption of alcohol linked to lower risk of heart attack in men
Men who drank moderate amounts of alcoholic beverages three or more times a week had a risk of myocardial infarction 30 to 35 percent lower than nondrinkers. The observational study, which tracked the drinking habits of nearly 40,000 men over a 12-year period, provides an important clue as to how alcohol helps guard against coronary…
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Health
Alzheimer’s disease: New theory on how it damages brain
Studies have shown that the buildup in the brain of certain toxic proteins, called amyloids, leads to the emergence of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Research has traditionally focused on how to eliminate or lower the levels of these proteins in the brain as a potential treatment for the disease. But now researchers believe that…
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Health
Meat consumption may not increase breast cancer risk
After following 88,647 women for 18 years, the largest and longest individual study of its kind to date, researcher Michelle Holmes and her co-investigators found no evidence that intake of meat during mid-life and later was associated with risk of breast cancer. Similarly, the data showed no reduced risk among women who were vegetarians. In…
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Science & Tech
Hypergiant star erupts
In the year 2000, the star Rho Cassiopeiae, n the constellation of Cassiopeia, lost more mass than in any other stellar eruption observed by astronomers. An international team of astronomers, led by astrophysicist Alex Lobel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, observed the huge eruption, which blasted nearly 10,000 times the mass of the Earth…
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Science & Tech
New research questions competition in corporate charters
The dominant state in attracting the incorporations of publicly traded companies is, and has long been, the state of Delaware. Although home to less than one-third of one percent of the U.S. population, Delaware plays a central role in setting corporate governance rules for the nation’s publicly traded companies. “The widely accepted justification for the…