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With that surprising exception, the basic health issues associated with hypertension have not changed. What's new is how deep the pool of at-risk people has become and how serious the danger for them is. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) estimates that of 65 million hypertensive Americans, nearly 20 million are not aware they have the condition. Worse, the 65 million figure is just an estimate of the vulnerable population, and that population is a constantly moving target. Every time the nation's obesity needle ticks upward, the number of hypertensive Americans does...
...they must buy into it—or else the long-heralded HCCR will simply replace one meaningless slogan (“ways of knowing”) with another one, such as “essential facts.” We worry that the College is in danger of shallowly slapping a new name on the barren intellectual wasteland that sits in the first section of the course catalog. Real reform is within reach, but to succeed, the Committee must present a coherent, principled vision for the purpose of a general education requirement. Otherwise, the College is far better...
...which Harvard jumped out to a massive lead and then suffered a horrific, slow-motion, last-minute collapse—the Crimson kept applying pressure. The squad killed off all but the final of its 12 penalties, clearing the puck often and with ease and never really appearing in danger of repeating its agonizing history...
...started in 1990 by a handful of Harvard professors who sought to “solve the problem of homelessness structurally,” Chou says, because while so many programs focus strictly on fighting homelessness with shelters, programs to help people in danger of becoming homeless in the first place are few and far between...
...form of generous loans to “people in tough financial circumstances, with no access to loans from banks, and [who] have bad credit history,” says Chou. In addition to offering loans worth one or two months’ rent to people in danger of eviction, according to Chou, HOP also aids those already homeless to get back on their feet by “provid[ing] money to people in homeless shelters for help with housing...