Word: affected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilson, as independent in action as he is in thought, wants this. When Wilson announced his decision to come to Harvard last February, he told reporters that he wanted to join a faculty where he could affect social policy...
...students' report acknowledges the difficulty of identifying race by pictures but argues that this problem should not affect the final results unless there was "systematic bias in identifying race...
That deal was the catalyst for a tidal wave of change which, in the last five years, has brought an all-star team of Afro-American scholars to Harvard, earned the department national commendations and could place it in the position to affect American social policy on race and welfare...
...must go through. Certain "longevity assurance" genes then make sure that the cell population keeps dividing until the clock winds down. A newer theory champions the role of stress-response genes, which regulate the body's maintenance and repair functions. As yet, researchers are unsure whether these genes merely affect susceptibility to disease or actually control the aging processes...
Illustrious medical schools, no friends of untested practice, have joined lesser-known schools and research groups in taking a new look at what some prefer to call complementary medicine. Harvard Medical School, a bastion of high-end biomedical research, offers a course on how alternative treatments might affect clinical practice and research. Harvard has also endowed a Mind/Body Medical Institute chair, the first in the field of behavioral medicine, which is currently held by Dr. Herbert Benson, the fervent promoter of the "relaxation response," a physiological state of decreased blood pressure, heart rate, metabolism and respiration. Harvard professor Dr. David...