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With The Crimson now receiving a greater number of letters to the editors than in past years, I caution those responsible for editing and publishing the letters to take extra care in ensuring both that the author's meaning is preserved and that bias does not creep into choices about what language to cut or retain. Choices about which letters to publish should ensure that the diversity of reader opinion on the Harvard campus is properly represented. The Crimson should continue to retain as much of a letter's own language as possible and exercise caution in those instances...
...Saturn Monday, nothing more than a space-bound H-bomb? Despite the spaceship being laden with 72 pounds of highly toxic plutonium, the chances of a nuclear nightmare are actually quite remote. TIME science correspondent Jeffery Kluger reports that "Cassini's opponents have shown an extreme excess of caution. Dozens of spacecraft have flown with nuclear power sources, and so far, there have been no accidents...
Even now, however, Ernest and his colleagues cannot be certain they are on the right track. Too many promising treatments for macular degeneration, they caution, have failed to produce discernible benefits. But if they--and other researchers around the world--are on to something basic, then eventually ophthalmologists will be able to help their patients, perhaps not to cure macular degeneration (that would be too much to hope for), but at least to stop its relentless progression...
...noninvasive, procedures to control bleeding during an operation--such as laparoscopy, which requires tiny incisions, or ultrasound to destroy kidney stones--they usually stop short of transfusionless surgery. Some medical fundamentalists view it as a false promise with its own risks, but even doctors who acknowledge its value caution that it is not the panacea some physicians think it is. Certain situations--liver transplants, for example, and instances of trauma--will always require transfusions. Says Dr. Steven Gould, a surgeon at the University of Illinois at Chicago who advocates reduced surgical use of donated blood: "Some operations require four...
...death was higher in people with heart disease. "In some circumstances," he says, "blood is lifesaving. When people get very low blood levels, their risk of running into trouble is substantial, and if you're old or have cardiovascular disease, that risk may be even greater. So I recommend caution...