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...college students, that idea of having to rebuild your identity and really decide who you are is crucial to our present state,” says Adriana I. Colon ’12, who plays Antonia in the show. “I feel like that’s something that’s really relatable—that reevaluation of who we are and where we’re going...
...Take the Zen Train” represents a new development in Ho’s philosophy that occurred after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. His entire approach to music has become part of a much more organic, earth-conscious process, and he is now focusing on a new project, the Green Monster Big Band. “The old Fred Ho that engaged in whatever produced the toxicity that led to my cancer, that path cannot be returned to now. I’m a part-time farmer now, farmer Fred. I’m about four...
Technically, they're known as the gut microbiota, a universe of tens of trillions of microbes, which live and thrive in the human intestinal tract and colon and most of which survive without oxygen. These microbes perform an enormous range of vital functions, including helping regulate the calories the body obtains from food and stores as fat. In other words, they may help regulate weight. And a new study published on Nov. 12 in Science Translational Medicine suggests that the particular type and balance of bugs you harbor in your gut may help push your body toward either obesity...
...American Cancer Society announced that the benefits of prostate- and breast-cancer screenings have been overstated, after a study found that such tests often detect nonlethal tumors but fail to catch faster-spreading malignant growths. Screenings for colon and cervical cancers, on the other hand, have led to a marked decline in late-stage cancers...
Theodore R. Sizer, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and innovative educational reformer, died last week of colon cancer at his Harvard, Mass., home...