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...This is the fundamental problem in the prevention and treatment of heart attacks and strokes, according to Harvard Medical School professor Paul Ridker, the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It is the story of the “45-year-old woman or man who goes out running and doesn’t come home because he or she drops dead,” Ridker said...
...other experts in the field are not completely sold. Lori Mosca, a professor of cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center, praised Ridker’s study but said that it is important to weigh the short-term benefits against potential long-term effects...
...fourth quarter and the Bulldogs ahead 29-13, the Game—the final appearance for Skowronski and his senior teammates—seemed to be headed towards an inevitable Crimson defeat. “I felt totally crushed,” Harvard’s former center says. “This was the most important game of my life, and I was realizing that my career was over.”But with 42 seconds left, destiny intervened, the momentum shifted, and the Crimson staged a comeback for the ages, establishing the 1968 Game...
...President-elect Barack Obama will soon invite current Defense Secretary Robert Gates to extend his stay in the Pentagon. Conventional it may be, but not necessarily wise, says Lawrence Korb, who served as a senior Pentagon official in the Reagan Administration and is currently a defense expert at the Center for American Progress. "It has more minuses than pluses," says Korb about the idea to keep Gates in place. "If President Obama wants to make any dramatic changes in the Pentagon, he's going to have to do them in his first year - and if he's got the same...
...Five years later, they have that, and a lot more, in the Center for American Progress (CAP), the most influential independent organization in Obama's nascent Washington. CAP was the brainchild of former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, who dutifully worked wealthy dinner parties with a simple idea: He would create a new organization, a "think tank on steroids," to help progressive ideas regain power. Tom Daschle, once the top Democrat in the Senate, got on board, calling it an "action tank." Sarah Wartell, who would become Podesta's deputy, had a more homely description: "Not your...