Word: actualizing
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...because doctors have been unable to inform men with any level of precision what their actual risk of death is from prostate cancer, fearful patients have often sought unnecessary surgery and radiation; fewer than 10% of patients who are diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 60 or older choose watchful waiting. "With this new evidence, doctors can give patients some quantifiable information so that together they can decide if it's more appropriate to forgo active treatment for now and just monitor their disease for any new developments," says Brooks, who was not involved in the study...
...said local resident Brent Whelan. Like some other critics of the current plan, he said the proposal’s faults could be alleviated if the University would allow for residential development on more of its unused Allston land holdings. Until “Harvard is an actual participant” in the planning process, a viable agreement would be impossible to come to, he said. Harvard representatives sat nearly silently at the back of the room, with Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, Harvard’s director of community relations for Boston, interjecting that they...
...additional land provided by Harvard in the latest draft allowed planners to reduce the total number of units on the site while increasing the number of actual buildings, replacing several larger, multi-unit buildings with smaller structures. Jacques says the development’s height and density, which had been one of the main concerns in the original plan, will now be comparable to those of its surrounding neighborhood...
Stephanie H. Kenen, associate dean of undergraduate education, expressed frustration with the task of devising cuts without fully understanding their “sense of scale,” or actual effects on the budget, and requested that Smith provide a guideline to help administrators better correlate cuts with numbers. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Peter B. Machinist ’66, who expressed concern about the fate of “smaller humanistic fields” that may be in “some peril,” asked Smith to iterate his intellectual priorities...
...feel like I got a lot of similar tools from that experience.”Junior Michael Puopolo encountered a similar experience working for MLB.“I think it’s one of the coolest summer opportunities you could possibly have—both for the actual experience itself and the lifelong story—whether or not you have a long term interest in working in the sports industry,” he said.The NBA and MLB expressed similar delight with their relationship to Harvard students. “Harvard students tend to be well-rounded...