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...lead researchers. “There were changes in [the heart structure of] almost every athlete,” said Baggish, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. But he also emphasized that one of the key results of the study is that “different types of training affect the heart in different ways.” By the end of the fall season, many of the football players’ hearts had accumulated up to 12 percent more muscle mass due to a thickening of their heart walls. While the mass of the rowers’ hearts...
...Harvard College—the search for the new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Given the importance of this position, we hope that Faust, who will select the new dean, will give students an official voice. The dean of the Faculty has broad powers that affect both student life and education. The dean holds the critical power of the purse over the College’s budget, and almost every student life initiative from advising to housing to social life requires the dean’s approval. The next dean also controls the fate...
...some find these calculations a bit too sunny. Michael Downing, Tufts University professor and author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, says: "Congress has been studying this for 100 years and has yet to come up with reliable energy savings." Daylight saving does affect people's habits: studies from the the last DST extension in 1986 show that we shop, head outside, play sports, fire up the barbecue, and drive more often once daylight saving kicks in. (Conversely, Nielsen ratings for prime-time TV traditionally fall.) But many of these activities, especially increased leisure driving, offset...
...competition did not affect Papadakis, who placed first in the preliminaries of the one-meter competition with a score of 255.60, but dropped to second to Kate Hynes of Drexel with an overall score...
...turns out to be a frustratingly layered choice, one that implicates many other questions: What's the most efficient way to grow food for all? Should farms be big or small, family- or corporate-run? How do your choices affect the planet? What tastes better? And then there's that little matter of cancer...