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...laborious and costly process. “Millions and millions of dollars are spent just to recognize mutations in a few cancers when ideally, you would want to know that information for the whole spectrum of cancers,” said the study’s senior author, Levi A. Garraway, an instructor in medicine at Dana-Farber. A second challenge, according to Garraway, is the “bottleneck” that occurs when trying to put our expanding knowledge of how genetic mutations cause cancer into practice in the clinic. “Hundreds of these mutations...
...Mediterranean culture, researchers studied more than 23,000 Greek adults for an average of six years and found that subjects who indulged in regular snoozes were 37 percent less likely to die of heart disease than those who pushed through the day without a nap. Michael Irwin, a co-author of the study and psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at University of California, Los Angeles, said that there are cardiovascular benefits to getting enough sleep every day. “There is a link between poor sleep and cardiovascular mortality,” said Irwin...
...believe that my being the textbook author was one reason the department turned to me when [Baker Professor of Economics] Martin Feldstein stepped down from his role as course head. So, while the professor chooses the book, in this case, to some degree, the book determined the professor,” Mankiw wrote in an e-mail...
...Well, Bush's presidency did change Franken's career. It made him a best-selling author, of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (a book whose subtitle cued Fox News to sue him, unsuccessfully of course, for appropriating the channel's catchphrase) and The Truth, With Jokes. In 2004 his passion to mobilize progressives against Bush's war, and for the election of a Democratic President, landed him the job as host of a daily, three-hour talk show on the new liberal network Air America Radio, where...
...laude graduate of Harvard, longtime cast member-writer on Saturday Night Live and co-author of the alcohol-horror movie When a Man Loves a Woman thinks he's good enough and smart enough - and doggone it, enough people like him - to be the next U.S. Senator from Minnesota. On his final Al Franken Show, he announced that he is running to reclaim the seat that Sen. Paul Wellstone lost when he, his wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash two weeks before the 2002 election, and which was won by Republican Norm Coleman. The New York City...