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...hormones because estrogen alone increases the risk of uterine cancer.) Two years later, the estrogen-only (Premarin) part of the trial, which focused on nearly 11,000 postmenopausal women who had undergone a hysterectomy, was stopped because of a slightly greater risk of stroke--although there was no overall boost in heart disease. Preliminary evidence at the time suggested that estrogen did not increase the women's risk of breast cancer. That was something of a surprise, so most researchers reserved judgment until the final analyses had been completed...
...search for his successor? “Not very closely,” he said. Summers—whose tenure is set to be the shortest of any Harvard president since the Civil War—said he is most proud of his efforts to revamp undergraduate education, boost science and interdisciplinary initiatives, and expand financial aid to more students. But he was reluctant to predict his legacy as Harvard’s 27th president. “I think it’s for others to judge,” he said. —Staff writer Nicholas...
...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...
Those applicants deemed physically attractive did not receive a wage boost when employers only saw their resume, according to the study...
...Since launching three senior faculty searches in 2000, the department is poised to double its full-time faculty, welcome yet another record number of graduate students, and boost its undergraduate numbers...