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...Scalding sun; fields of snow. Maurice Jarre created memorable anthems for these two extremes in his first films for David Lean: the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia and the 1965 Doctor Zhivago. The French composer, who died Sunday in Los Angeles at 84, after a losing bout with cancer, wrote the scores for more than 150 features, but he'll always be associated with Lean, as much as Bernard Herrmann is with Alfred Hitchcock or John Williams with Steven Spielberg. The director devises the images; the composer gives them emotional heft. Both the pictures and their accompanying sounds lodge indelibly...
Five Harvard scientists will have more freedom and greater resources to pursue their research after receiving the first grants awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s new Early Career Scientist program. Among the 50 nationwide grant recipients, announced last Thursday, are Bradley E. Bernstein, who conducts cancer research at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital; Kevin Eggan and Konrad Hochedlinger, both researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Amy J. Wagers of the Joslin Diabetes Center; and Rachel I. Wilson ’96, who runs a neurobiology lab at Harvard Medical School. The grant provides each researcher...
Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, an HSPH associate professor who works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is one of Koh’s most frequent collaborators, said that there is “remarkable resonance” in the civil and private sector to overhaul health care—and that Koh will be there to lead the effort...
Turnbull added that Koh has the ability to understand the combined power of policy change and community action—which in the past led him to found MassCONECT, a project that aims to reduce cancer resource disparities in low income communities...
...been sidelined. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination to be Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services in early February amid revelations of tax problems, and Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Health Committee, has had to work behind the scenes as he battles brain cancer...