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Three new reports by research teams in the U.S., Europe and Iceland have identified, for the first time, specific gene variants that appear to make some smokers and former smokers more susceptible than others to cancer. The two variants - or differences in a single nucleotide - exist in about 34% of the population and occur in genes in the same region of the long arm of chromosome 15. Those genes code for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, cell-surface proteins that selectively bind to nicotine molecules. Once nicotine attaches to these receptors, a series of changes in the cells is triggered...
...decision to use up eligibility in an extra year may appear to be a win-win situation—Pizzotti will have the opportunity to lead his team to another Ivy League title, Mazza’s super-senior season landed him a job in the Italian Football League with the Parma Panthers, and Lofgren will undoubtedly give her team an edge over the competition after being part of such a rigorous training regimen...
...Seven Deep Springs transfers currently count themselves as members of the undergraduate student body. While the admissions office does not keep tallies of transfer students’ schools of origin, the number does not appear to be an aberration. Figures cited in The Crimson in 2000 counted eight Deep Springs émigrés in the classes...
...Hollywood epics tend to paint their antagonists in comfortingly black-and-white terms; Turkey's dispute has many more gray tones. The conservative Muslims appear as new democrats, though only when it suits them; some cast the social democrats in the role of new hard-line nationalists; and Ataturk, whose biggest aspiration was for Turkey to join the "civilized West," would no doubt be stunned to hear that his military is skeptical of entry into the European Union. Meanwhile, investors are spooked, leading Turkish unions are on strike over a proposed social security reform law, unemployment is over...
...Admissions Office’s letter to the applicants recognizes this concern (and they plan to refund the application fee) it was in poor form to announce this decision after the application deadline. The reason for eliminating transfer admissions—a housing crunch—certainly did not appear out of thin air. The act of eliminating transfer admissions undermines the Harvard admissions philosophy. Had Harvard read the current applications and decided that none were qualified enough to warrant further housing strain, the decision not to admit transfers would have seemed warranted. Instead, the admissions officers...