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Only last year, Allen Roses, a Duke University neurologist, seemed out in left field in terms of research on Alzheimer's disease, the dread brain disorder that afflicts as many as 4 million Americans. His theory that a particular gene puts people at high risk for Alzheimer's just didn't get much attention or respect from fellow scientists. But after months of tirelessly making his case, Roses is no longer dismissed; instead he is being courted by drug companies eager to use his research to find a diagnostic test and treatment. At a medical meeting in New York City...
...Allen's friends see her as someone who will remain an activist, no matter what field...
...always been worried about the reality of everyday lives," says Jessica S. Yellin '93, Allen's first-year roommate and a prominent feminist activist in her own right...
...meantime Allen has her eyes on a more immediate goal; hiking the Appalachian trail next spring--with...
...report's author, Steven G. Allen, a professor of economics at North Carolina State University, says that on private sector projects of more than 100,000 square feet, the productivity of union labor was 30 per cent higher than non-union labor, and productivity published...