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...Harvard sailing team kicked off its season last weekend with four events around New England, and the Crimson endured shifty conditions to bring home its first team title of the year.The co-ed team split between the Harry Anderson Trophy in New Haven, Conn. and the MIT Invite in Cambridge. The MIT Invite brought the team’s highlight of the weekend, as Harvard dominated the competition, winning both divisions of the regatta. The Crimson finished a respectable tenth at the Anderson Trophy.Meanwhile, the women’s team sailed in two events—the Man-Labs Trophy...
...typically have to write grant proposals that demonstrate a reasonable expectation of success. "You have to have already done some of the stuff and then propose it, before they're going to believe it's the right thing to do," says Dr. Ray DuBois, executive vice president of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a cancer researcher. A proposal can take months to write, so a rejection means the loss of a scientist's productivity as well...
...also mean that "lesser" cancers don't get as much attention. M.D. Anderson has a project to map the entire bladder-cancer genome. "It's not something that NIH is interested in because it's a little less common than other cancers," says DuBois. Using other funds, researchers identified a gene defect that correlates smoking and bladder cancer. "If you have that defect and you smoke, there's a 100% chance you'll get cancer," says DuBois. But the hospital is more likely to get support for work on lung cancer, a much bigger problem. So call it research triage...
Taliban fighters are representatives of an ousted legal government. They are defenders, not insurgents. There is no way forward unless and until the Taliban are accepted as a real part of Afghan life. Louis Anderson, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
...miniatures. Not the low-budget horror-meisters; their strategy of going-too-far has become an all-too-familiar destination. And certainly not the makers of big action films, as sleek and efficient and fun as they are. That's one of the limitations of machine entertainment like the Anderson Death Race. It can't break the mold it's cast in; it can reproduce only itself. It doesn't take the sublime risk that the audience will stare at the screen going "Huh?"- and, maybe later...