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Well-Informed Barber: I've noticed your hair is thinning quite...
...Barber: Very funny. But I guess you haven't read the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A study out of the Boston University School of Public Health shows that men with bald spots can have more than three times the risk of heart attack as guys with a full head of hair...
...Barber: Ah, but the study also says that only a bald spot on top - so-called vertex baldness - is the problem. If you're losing hair in front or on the sides, you're probably...
...Barber: The researchers don't know. It could be that both are related to a common factor - a high level of the male hormone dihydrotestosterone is one plausible culprit. In any case, an editorial in JAMA says the correlation between baldness and heart disease is statistically sound...
Unless or until these requirements are met, Black applicants should be treated no differently than white applicants with respect to fringe benefits and enticement. V. Clifton Barber, second-year student, Harvard Business School