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Back in December 2000, if you had asked the then dark-haired President-elect to assess his predecessors, George W. Bush might have ranked Bill Clinton down around, oh, say, 42 out of 42. The President's friends say he has a lot more respect for Clinton now having seen what the ups and downs of the office are like. And this White House can only envy the final trajectory of Clinton's presidency--in a trough with two years to go and then celebrated as he ran up surpluses and pulled all-nighters negotiating Middle East peace. President Ronald...
...archived in the National Library of Medicine's online database, Medline. Ludwig says his team focused on beverages because they provided a discreet, easily analyzed sample to test the hunch that nutritional science might be skewed by industry dollars. (More studies would be needed to assess the impact of sponsorship on food research, which the study did not address...
...invasive procedure than a mastectomy. The hormone treatment was commonly used 40 years ago on lanky teenage girls who didn't want to get any taller. "The main risk," Gunther says, "is of thrombosis or blood clot, which is a risk in anybody taking estrogen. It's hard to assess in a young child because no one this young has been treated with estrogen." There were very few reports of thrombosis among the teenage patients, he says, "So I suspect the risk is fairly low. After treatment is finished, I don't see any long-term risk...
...process. The two-year seminar beginning in eleventh grade is both a tutorial on searching for a job and an exercise in self-exploration. Each student fills fat white binders with biographies, personal mission statements, lists of life and career goals, and assorted essays in which they articulate and assess their own strengths, interests and ambitions. A boy who wants to be a mechanical engineer composed an essay titled "How To Be A Better Me," outlining the steps he intends to take to "become successful in everything in life." Through interviews with working professionals, consultations with career advisors, and Internet...
...Kagan said. Feldman could not be reached for comment yesterday. For months, rumors have swirled that Harvard had made a full-time offer to Feldman. As the Law School has become more active in the lateral hiring market, it has used visiting professorships to woo and assess promising scholars. Professors of Law Daryl J. Levinson ’90 and Adrian Vermeule ’90, both of whom were visiting professors the same year as Feldman, have also accepted permanent offers in the last year. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...