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...changed their preference for care, compared with 29% of those who did not see the video. People who saw the video also scored higher on health literacy tests, given by the researchers to judge knowledge of advanced dementia. "The results suggest that patients who watched the video had a better understanding of the disease and felt more secure in their decision. We felt those results were promising, as the goal for end-of-life decisions is to make sure [the patients] are informed," Volandes says...
...research proposal. “Everything he gets, he absolutely deserves, and the credit should all go to him,” Weitz said of Yao. “Norm is smart, conscientious, kind, and works very hard. You can’t ask for a better student.” In the future, Yao said he plans to wrap up his current research in biophysics and branch out into the field of atomic physics. He will pursue a doctoral degree in condensed matter physics at Harvard this fall. --Staff writer Manning Ding can be reached at ding3@fas.harvard.edu...
...casino, Demauro started her roll at 8:13 p.m. She bought into the game with $100 and when the orange-colored dice came around to her, she rubbed her hands together and let them fly. Demauro says she had played craps only once before, and being an inexperienced better, followed Capra's advice when placing bets...
...influence with the Obama Democrats that he never quite expected. "I don't do maintenance," Gates told me. "I would never do a job just to sustain the status quo. I like to go into an institution that's already good and do everything I can to make it better...
...Pentagon was good at some things, dreadful at others. It is better now, but there are lives at stake every day. Gates keeps track of those killed and wounded on his watch. He knows the exact numbers. He can get misty talking about the troops he's met downrange, young people the same age as the carefree students he supervised at Texas A&M, "which makes this all so much harder," he says. They - not future fights with China, not last week's tactics in Afghanistan - light up his eyes. He won't be abandoning them anytime soon...