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...campus received a boost to their resources when Robert D. Ziff '88 honored the hockey team with a $2 million gift, endowing the position of the team's coach. And exercise buffs found a newly-stocked Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) beckoning in September, sporting 40 new pieces of cardiovascular equipment thanks to an anonymous donation of an undisclosed amount...
...chase mice out of the lab. Mice save lives. Because their tumors develop almost overnight, says Merck's Oliff, "we can do tests 10 or 100 times more quickly than in humans." Their usefulness varies with diseases, though. He notes that rodents are better predictors of human reaction to cardiovascular or anti-inflammatory agents than to cancer or diseases of the central nervous system. But that's a trade-off researchers are more than willing to accept in their search for a cancer cure. "If you find a favorite agent doesn't work," Oliff says, "you simply throw it away...
...RUNNING will increase cardiovascular endurance and lung capacity. If you want to wear a gown and high heels, fine, but safety first...
...STEEP-ANGLE CLIMBS will make the legs more powerful and increase the cardiovascular capacity of the trainee," Lambacker says...
Soon we're moving through the small but cozy library, the magnificent Harvard Hall (complete with mounted elephant-head) and a gym which seems, at least on a cursory inspection, to have more cardiovascular equipment than...