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...Canada's writers and editors embracing conflicts that publications traditionally go out of their way to avoid? To some observers, it's pure self interest. "What do they have to lose?" wrote journalist Allan Fotheringham in his syndicated column. "If Conrad wins, he says he will rebuild his empire. If that is the case, then those journalists have a chance to work for the great man again...
Kass Professor of the History of Medicine Allan M. Brandt appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show Wednesday night, attempting to shed light on the growing dishonesty within the cigarette industry in a spirited—and very lighthearted—conversation with host Jon Stewart...
...grew up in poverty with nine other siblings—has won him many admirers over the years, propelling him to become the first black individual from Louisiana elected to Congress since Reconstruction. Some political analysts blamed the fact that Jefferson succumbed to bribes on the poverty he escaped. Allan Katz, a New Orleans-based political consultant who has known Jefferson for more than 30 years, told The Boston Globe last year: “His perceived flaw among his peers has always been that, shaped by his humble beginnings, Bill loved money and desperately wanted to be a rich...
...Other names mentioned as possible candidates for the position include Professor of the History of Science Allan M. Brandt, Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69, Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffry A. Frieden, and Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering Michael D. Smith...
...Apart from side effects and a shift toward off-the-rack medicine, objections to the polypill are based on concerns that we're becoming too reliant on drugs: "Walking for 45 minutes most days of the week would give the equivalent benefits of the polypill," says Roger Allan, chairman of the clinical issues committee of Australia's National Heart Foundation. The polypill, he says, "is the lazy man's option." In 2004, health experts in the Netherlands proposed the polymeal-fish, red wine, garlic, vegetables, fruit, almonds, dark chocolate-as an alternative of roughly equal potency...