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When scientists at Sanofi-Aventis took on the challenge of developing a weight-loss drug, they chose an unusual approach. Instead of studying ways to curb the body's natural desire to eat, they decided to home in on the very biological circuits that activate hunger. Even more unorthodox was the craving phenomenon they decided to analyze: the marijuana munchies. If marijuana can trigger the appetite, then perhaps that system could be coaxed into switching...
...Former Associate Dean for Academic Programs Elizabeth Doherty, who held several posts within the College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) before leaving for Brown early last year, wrote in an e-mail that she chose to move from Cambridge to Providence primarily because of the attractions of the new post. But she added that she perceived “a growing tendency to denigrate the work of the faculty and to describe education as a ‘product’” in the College. “All of this seemed...
When he was a Harvard student in the fifties, Banker said he used to eat at a popular breakfast diner, Hays-Bickfords, a chain that no longer exists. To revive these Square breakfast memories, Banker chose to rent the space to IHOP...
...down by the city and replaced by a parking lot. A few years ago, plans were moving ahead to replace the lot with an underground garage when workers excavating the site discovered a cluster of Roman ruins. This time a wiser city government made two important decisions. First, it chose to preserve the ruins within a below-ground museum. Second, it opted to hold an international competition for an overhead structure to connect the museum to the surface and to transform the plaza from a parking lot into a people magnet...
...regardless of his race—than a white woman’s family. The study was conducted using the Medicare claims database, a widely used resource for sociologists. Elwert was able to control for health history as well as age, poverty status, and residential context. He chose to focus on elderly couples because 74 percent of Americans die after the age of 65, and most earlier studies of the widowhood effect have focused on younger couples. Elwert said he intends to continue his research on race and the widowhood effect by looking at specific causes of death. Christakis...