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...When former vice president Samuel C. Cohen ’00 decided to stay out of the race for UC president in 1998, it was precisely the brutality of the business that he cited in his decision...
...heart disease than those with more placid personal lives. The emotions at play in tense marriages can do cumulative damage to organs and tissues that may leave people at greater risk of illness, the authors wrote. "There is a fair amount of evidence" linking stress and disease, says Sheldon Cohen, a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University who authored a recent paper about the negative effects of stress on heart disease and illnesses like depression and HIV/AIDS, "enough to start asking whether reductions of stress would reduce disease outcomes...
...become more aware of chronic stress as a precursor of heart trouble, the question of what to do about it has yet to be answered. While there are plenty of stress-reduction techniques - meditation and exercise are two common remedies - there has been little scientific evaluation of their effectiveness. Cohen, the Carnegie Mellon professor, says researchers should conduct clinical trials in order to identify the best treatments and to determine whether patients fare better when given those treatments. But even if such trials received funding, they could take years to complete. In the meantime, the best advice to those worried...
...those found in the more affluent Western countries. If the goal is to prevent the spread of breast cancer around the world, perhaps more attention should be paid to these global changes rather than to the development of more expensive - and often unattainable - medical devices and drugs. Leonard A. Cohen, Ph.D., Editor, Nutrition and Cancer: An International Journal, Northampton, Mass...
...Harvard Dance Center this past weekend. The program featured discussions with Berensohn, a philosopher and so-called “deep ecologist” at the Penland School of Crafts, as well as performances by Christine Dakin, artistic director laureate of the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Rachel A. Cohen ’96, founder of the performance company Racoco Productions. The interdisciplinary program exposed potters and dancers to each others’ artistic experience. As David J. Tischfield ’09, a ceramicist who runs the Quincy Pottery Studio, put it, “I took away...