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...reflection of a continuing ambivalence about him that 47% of those same respondents believed that Lee's family connections helped him get to the top. Those doubts remain despite a concerted media campaign highlighting Lee's human side. Themes have included his battle with cancer in the early '90s, his sense of loss after the death of his first wife in 1982, the challenges of raising an autistic son, and the fact that he occasionally eschews his habitual suit and tie for a polo shirt. The Straits Times even detailed his permissive parenting style under the headline, IT'S OKAY...
Parents may have a new reason to feel good about sending their children to preschool this fall. According to a study in this month's Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal, children who attend day care or nursery school for at least one year before kindergarten are about 36% less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults. The study's scientists, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Yale University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, suggest that early contact with other kids' germs and exposure to common childhood infections help the immune system mature...
RECOVERING. STEVE JOBS, 49, CEO of Apple Computer; from cancer surgery; in Cupertino, Calif. He announced the details of his condition--a rare but treatable form of pancreatic cancer--via a company-wide email in which he noted, "I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an AirPort Express...
Researchers at Broad are currently divided into eight programs such as cancer, infectious diseases and chemical biology, each of which has weekly or bi-weekly meetings, according to Lander...
...founding faculty members: Lander, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Stuart L. Schreiber, and two Harvard Medical School professors—Assistant Professor of Genetics David M. Altshuler, who works at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics Todd R. Golub, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...